Today we are talking all about contact precautions. One of the most commonly
used precautions in the healthcare facilities, so you want to make sure
you're on top of the right process. We're gonna take care of all that right after
this. Welcome back my name is Tammy and this is NurseMinder and on this channel
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So in contact precautions, we use these to prevent the transmission of organisms
that are transferred through skin-to-skin contact or contact with
their environment. In these cases, masks are not required because it's not a
respiratory illness. These are microorganisms that are living
on the surfaces. You may have commonly seen these in your practice with
conditions such as C. diff, MRSA or mersa as I hear it and maybe even VRE
and other. Sometimes you're also going to see contact precautions used in
combination with another type of PPE; maybe contact and airborne or contact and
droplet precautions and we're going to talk about that in another video. For
these patients the doors can stay open, there's no risk of transmission from the
respiratory system as mentioned, and hand hygiene is always important. So let's
take a look at the donning and doffing process. Before we put on any of our
equipment our PPE to enter into a patient's room we always want to start
with hand hygiene. So if your hands are clean we can start with our
antimicrobial scrub. Now while you've cleaned your hands you've also noted
which precautions you're going to be using. In this case in our facility we're
using gloves and gown. We also want to make sure we look at the back side so
that it matches our patient population. So my patient, let's say today, has a diagnosis
of MRSA and I know I can go in there leave the door open and do my care.
Contact precautions.
I'm gonna put on my gown and you may find you have either cloth or fabric
gowns, that will just influence how you discard it. The opening is to the back.
You do want to tie these up.
You also want to tie this up trying to cover, make sure you are covered at the back.
Now that my gown is on I need my gloves and these are just the ones that are
clean hanging in the box on the wall. You want to ensure those go over the cuff and this will
help to prevent germs from getting on your skin. Now that you finished patient
care it's time to doff our PPE. To take this off, to remove you want to grab the
cusp, fold it out, so you're containing the mess inside the
glove. Put it in this palm. Grab the cuff, stretch it over and discard. Clean your hands.
Pull the strings, turning it in onto itself and holding to discard and then clean your hands. Thanks
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