Nursing NCLEX RN Review Video: Isolation
Precautions
In this video I am going to talk about isolation
precautions needed to know for the nursing NCLEX
RN exam.
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Precautions
Precautions on various illnesses and the different
steps to adequately protect yourself from various
illnesses are one of the highest yielding question
categories on the NCLEX.
It is a given that you will get at least one question
on precautions on your NCLEX exam.
That is why it is extremely important to remember
the different types of precautions and remember
which illnesses require different methods of
protection.
PrecautionSignThumbs
The 4 types personal protective equipment
precaution types are:
Standard
Contact
Droplet and
Airborne
Standard Precaution requires you to perform and
wear:
Hand Hygiene
Gloves
Contact Precaution requires you to perform and
wear:
Hand Hygiene
Gloves
Gown
Droplet Precaution requires you to perform and
wear:
Hand Hygiene
Gloves
Mask
Airborne Precautions requires you to perform and
wear::
Hand Hygiene
Gloves
N95 Mask
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Here is when to use standard precautions:
* Every patient you encounter
* Patients that require contact with any type of
bodily fluid
Here is when to use contact precautions:
* Anyone who has a transmittable disease via
contactable sources.
* Resistant bacterias such as MRSA, VRE, C-Diff
Here is when to use droplet precautions:
* Anyone who has the ability of transmitting
through small particles.
* Meningitis, Pertussis, Influenza
Here is when to use airborne precautions:
* Transmitted through the air.
* Measles, Tuberculosis, Varicella
Now here are some tips that will help you
remember this for NCLEX exam.
For standard precautions use
* "VCHIPS"
* Varicella
* Cutaneous diptheria
* Herpes simplex
* HIV
* Hepatitis B and C
* Impetigo
* Pediculosis (lice)
* Scabies
* Secretions, Excretions and Bodily fluids
For contact precautions use
* "MRS.
WEE"
* Multidrug
* Respiratory infection - RSV
* Skin infections
* Wound infections
* Enteric infections (c. diff)
* Eye infections (conjunctivitis - red eye)
* Adenovirus, Diarrhea, Rotavirus, E. Coli,
Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Herpes, RSV (if cough
productive)
For droplet precautions try to remember
* "Spiderman" or "SSSPPIDERMMMA(N)"
* Sepsis
* Scarlet fever
* Streptococcal Pharyngitis
For droplet precautions try to Rotavirus, E. Coli,
Salmonella, red eye)
* Wound infections
* Enteric infections (c. diff)
* Eye infections (conjunctivitis - red eye)
* Adenovirus, Diarrhea, Rotavirus, E. Coli,
Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Herpes, RSV (if cough
productive)
For droplet precautions try to remember
* "Spiderman" or "SSSPPIDERMMMA(N)"
* Sepsis
* Scarlet fever
* Streptococcal Pharyngitis
* Parvarovirus
* Pneumonia
* Influenza
* Diptheria
* Epiglottitis
* Rubella
* Mumps
* Meningitis
* Mycoplasma or Meningeal Pneumonia
* Adenovirus
* RSV
For airborne try to remember
* "My Chicken Has TB"
* Measels
* Chickenpox
* Herpes Zoster
* Tuberculosis
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