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Infection Prevention & Control
An introduction for new employees
Clinical Nurse Specialist CDHB Infection Prevention & Control
Service
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Aim of Infection Prevention & Control
• The primary aim of infection prevention & control is to prevent patients, staff and visitors from acquiring an infection while in our healthcare facilities.
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Achieving the Aim
• If you always use Standard and Transmission-based Precautions appropriately and correctly, you will keep yourself and your patients safe from acquiring infection while in the healthcare setting.
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Infection Prevention
• Standard Precautions• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)• Transmission-based Precautions
– Contact Precautions– Droplet Precautions– Airborne Precautions
• Multi Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO)• A safe environment
– Cleaning and disinfection– Blood and body fluid exposures (BBFE)
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
PPE is defined as...
“Specialised clothing or equipment worn by an employee for protection against infectious materials”
(OSHA) Centres for Disease Control and prevention web site.
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Types of PPE used in healthcare settings
• Gloves - protect hands• Gown/aprons - protect
skin and or clothing• Masks - protect
mouth/nose• Goggles - protect eyes• Visors/visor masks -
protect face, mouth, nose and eyes
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N95 Masks
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Transmission-based Precautions
(Isolation Precautions)
• When Standard Precautions are not quite enough
ContactDropletAirborne
• Used IN ADDITION TO Standard Precautions
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Contact Precautions
Used when in direct contact with patient or their environment
e.g. Scabies, MRSA, diarrhoea
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Droplet Precautions
Used for diseases which generate large droplets which travel approx. 1 - 2m then fall to the floor
e.g. Influenza
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Airborne Precautions
Used for diseases which are carried on small droplet nuclei suspended in the air e.g. Pulmonary TB, Chickenpox,Measles
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New Posters and Other updates available
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Multi drug resistant organisms (MDRO)
• ESBL-producing enterobacteriaceae E. Coli and Klebsiella
pneumoniae most common
• VRE Vancomycin-resistant E.
faecium & E. faecalis
• MRSAMethicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus
• MDR-GNB MDR Acinetobacter baumanii
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Cleaning & Disinfection
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Know what you are using!
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Sharps Safety
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Blood and Body Fluid Exposures (BBFE)
• Report all BBFE• BBFE packs in
clinical areas• Pink reporting form!!!• Hepatitis B
immunisation
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Achieving Infection Prevention….
If you always use Standard and Transmission-based Precautions appropriately and correctly, you will keep yourself and your patients safe from acquiring infection while in the healthcare setting.
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And finally…