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    The NCLEX exam has increased the percentage of questions related to safety and infection control, which now makes up 8-14% of questions. Specifically, infection control alone composes 10-13% of questions, meaning test takers can expect 15-20 infection control questions even with the minimum number of questions. However, many nursing students did not adequately study infection control. The document then provides detailed descriptions and procedures for standard precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet precautions including personal protective equipment used, patient protocols, and common diseases that fall under each category.

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    The NCLEX exam has increased the percentage of questions related to safety and infection control, which now makes up 8-14% of questions. Specifically, infection control alone composes 10-13% of questions, meaning test takers can expect 15-20 infection control questions even with the minimum number of questions. However, many nursing students did not adequately study infection control. The document then provides detailed descriptions and procedures for standard precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet precautions including personal protective equipment used, patient protocols, and common diseases that fall under each category.

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    The NCLEX exam has increased the percentage of questions related to safety and infection control, which now makes up 8-14% of questions. Specifically, infection control alone composes 10-13% of questions, meaning test takers can expect 15-20 infection control questions even with the minimum number of questions. However, many nursing students did not adequately study infection control. The document then provides detailed descriptions and procedures for standard precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet precautions including personal protective equipment used, patient protocols, and common diseases that fall under each category.

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    The NCLEX exam has increased the percentage of questions related to safety and infection control, which now makes up 8-14% of questions. Specifically, infection control alone composes 10-13% of questions, meaning test takers can expect 15-20 infection control questions even with the minimum number of questions. However, many nursing students did not adequately study infection control. The document then provides detailed descriptions and procedures for standard precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet precautions including personal protective equipment used, patient protocols, and common diseases that fall under each category.

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    Everyone taking the NCLEX or is about to take the NCLEX has realized that the NCSBN had change

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    format of the NCLEX. One of the big changes includes the percent amount ofSAFETY AND INFECTION
    CONTROL that will be on the NCLEX. The Safety and Infection Control now makes up about 8-14% of the questions
    in the NCLEX, I believe that it only previously composed of about 9-12% prior (or I could be wrong).
    INFECTION CONTROL
    Recently Infection Control makes up about 10- 13% of the NCLEX. That means that if you are able to get the average of
    about 130-150 questions, then you are guaranteed to recieved between 15- 20 questions that is related to Infection
    Control. Even if we get the least (75) amount of questions, we can still receive about 7-9 questions that is related to
    infection control, that is a HUGE help, if we do well on these questions. I personally dont think that Infection control is a
    difficult area. I believe that most of the nursing students never really studied Infection Control, when they were in
    Nursing School. Therefore, this lack of knowledge did not prepare the majority of the Nursing Student for the NCLEX.
    STANDARD PRECAUTIONS
    - is always done in congruent with the other types of precautions.
    Transmission-based Precautions includes:
    A Airborne
    D Droplet
    C Contact
    Airborne Precaution

    IS DONE WHEN SMALL DROPLETS OF INFECTED PATHOGENS ARE ABOUT ( 5 UM) ARE
    SUSPENDED IN THE AIR OVER TIME AND TRAVELS A DISTANCE OF MORE THAN (3) THREE FEET.

    AIRBORNE PRECAUTION IS USED WITH THESE DISEASES:


    My Measles

    MEASLES- OR RUBEOLA

    CAN BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH BLOOD URINE AND DROPLETS

    COMMUNICABLE ABOUT 4-5 DAYS AFTER THE RASH

    TREATMENT: BEDREST AND ANTIBIOTICS

    Chicken Chickenpox

    CHICKENPOX (VARICELLA)

    PT. WILL HAVE A SLIGHT FEVER

    MACULAR RASH APPEARS ON TRUNK AND EVENTUALLY TURN TO CRUST.

    Hez Herpes Zoster (Disseminated)


    TB Tuberculosis

    PRIVATE ROOM

    NEGATIVE PRESSURE WITH 6-12 AIR EXCHANGES PER HOUR

    UV

    MASK

    N95 MASK FOR TB

    DROPLET PRECAUTION
    S Sepsis
    S Scarlet fever
    S Streptococcal pharyngitis
    P Pneumonia
    I Influenza
    D Diptheria (Pharyngeal)
    E Epiglottitis
    What is necesary: Private room and Mask
    Contact Precation
    M Multidrug resistant organism
    R Respiratory infection RSV
    E Enteric infections clostridium defficile
    E Eye infections
    Skin Infections:
    V Varicella zoster
    C Cutaneous diptheria
    H Herpes simplex
    I Impetigo
    S Scabies, Staphylococcus
    PRIVATE ROOM
    GLOVES
    GOWNS

    One thing you are going to want to have down pat, is your contact precautions! Not only the PPE you should have on for
    each type of disease, but also what order to PPE off, what the patient should have on when being transported to another
    unit, what those transporting the patient should have on, the order in which you remove each piece of equipment, how
    often to perform hand hygeine and which diseases require which type of precaution.
    Standard Precautions: These are the safety measures that should be taken with all patients.
    1. Wash your hands (*Most important step in infection control, prevents nosocomial infections)
    2. DON gloves (before coming in contact with anything wet, i.e. broken skin, mucous membranes, blood, body fluids,
    soiled instruments, and contaminated waste materials.
    3. Wash hands again upon removal of gloves and between patients
    Contact Precautions:
    Before entering:
    1.wash hands
    2. DON gown then gloves
    upon entering:
    1. use disposable equipment when possible
    2. When not available clean and disinfect all equipment before removing from room
    Transporting patient:
    1. PT should perform hand hygeine and wear a clean gown
    2. For direct contact with pt, nurse or care provider should wear a gown and gloves.
    3. Notify receiving area
    Before leaving the patient's room:
    1. Remove gloves then gown
    2. Wash hands
    Contact Precautions Microorganisms:
    1. Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureu (MRSA), Extended spectrum betalactamase (ESBL), Penicillin resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (PRSP), Multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    (MDRP))
    2. Scabies
    3. Herpes Zoster (Shingles) localized
    4. Diarrhea, Clostrididum difficile
    Airborne Contact Precautions:
    Before entering:
    1.Wash hands
    2. Don N95 Respirator (Mask)
    3. Don gown then gloves
    *Negative Pressure Isolation Room KEEP DOOR CLOSED
    Transporting patient:
    1. Patient must wear a surgical or procedure mask and a clean gown
    2. Patient must wash hands
    3. For direct contact with pt, nurse or care provider should wear a gown and gloves.

    4. Notify receiving area


    Before leaving pt's room:
    1. Remove gloves then gown NOT N95 mask
    2. Wash hands
    After leaving pt's room:
    1. Shut door
    2. Wash hands
    3. Remove N95 mask
    4. Wash hands
    Airborne Contact Precautions Microorganisms:
    1. Measles (Rubeola)
    2. Tuberculosis (TB)
    3. Chicken Pox (Varicella-Zoster virus)
    4. Herpes Zoster (Shingles) disseminated
    Droplet Contact Precautions:
    Before Entering:
    1. Wash Hands
    2. DON Mask and Eye Protection
    3. DON Gown then Gloves
    Patient Transport:
    1. Pt must perform hand hygeine
    2. Pt must wear a surgical or procedure mask and clean gown
    3. For direct contact with pt, nurse or care provider should wear a gown and gloves.
    4. Notify receiving area
    Before Leaving Pt's Room:
    1. Remove gloves then gown
    2. Wash Hands
    3. Remove eye protection and mask
    4. Wash Hands
    Droplet Contact Precautions Microorganisms:
    1. Influenza (Flu)
    2. Viral Respiratory tract infections (adenovirus, parainfluenza, rhinovirus, RSV)
    3. Streptococcus group A pharyngitis, pneumonia, scarlet fever
    4. Neisseria meningitidis invasive infections
    5. H. Influenzae type b invasive infections
    6. Pertussis
    7. Rubella
    8. Mumps

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