Date______Unit______
Infection Prevention Tracer 2016
1. What is the contact (kill) time for the purple top germicidal wipes?
a) 2 minutes
b) 5 minutes
c) 10 minutes
2. Who should you contact when you have a patient with suspect of confirmed
TB?
a) Infection Prevention (624-2471)
b) The attending physician
c) Both
3. Hand hygiene should be performed…
a) Only if my hands are soiled, and I am not wearing gloves.
b) Before and after patient contact, before and after wearing gloves, and
any time my hands are visibly soiled.
c) Only if my patient is in contact precautions, when I leave the room.
4. What PPE and equipment would be necessary caring for a patient requiring
contact precautions?
a) N95 mask, gown, gloves, eye shield, isolation caddy
b) gloves always; and a gown when in direct contact with the patient
c) surgical mask, gown, gloves, eye shield, isolation caddy
5. What is the proper order for doffing (removing) PPE?
a) gown, gloves, mask, goggles
b) mask, gloves, gown, goggles
c) gloves, goggles, gown, mask
6. When washing hands with soap and water you should spend______washing,
a) 1 full minute
b) 15 seconds (or for as long as it takes to sing happy birthday)
c) 30-45 seconds, at least!
7. ______is the most frequently used transmission-based precaution.
a) droplet
b) airborne
c) contact
8. What type of precautions are used with every single patient regardless of infection status?
a) contact
b) standard
c) droplet
9. You can find the transmission based precautions table…
a) in Policytech
b) behind the shield icon on your desktop
c) on the patient condition update directly under where the reason for
precautions is being charted
d) all of the above
10. You must provide education, which can be found under (Charting-Assessments-Interventions-Education)in Soarian, to each patient having a hospital acquired or multi drug resistant infection.
True False
11. IP Policies and information like advisories can be found…
a) Policytech under the quick references link; and under Infection Prevention Manual
b) The Transmission Based Precautions Table and the TB control plan can be found under the IP shield on the desk top
c) Both of these
Answer Key:
a,a,b,b,c,b,c,c,d,a,c
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