Download - Infection Control Precautions: What to Do
Infection Control Precautions:What to Do
• Okay to enter:– Protective Precautions– Contact Precautions (with gown,gloves)
– Droplet Precautions (with mask)
• DO NOT ENTER:– Enteric Precautions – Airborne Precautions
Protective Precautions – OK
• Designed to protect immunosuppressed patients
• Wash hands before entering room
• (Standard precautions for all our patients)
• Patients must wear mask when leaving room, must have private playroom times
Contact Precautions - OK• Wear gown and gloves BEFORE
entering room• Remove gown and gloves before
leaving, and wash or foam hands before leaving
• Borrowed toys/resources must have hard surfaces that can be sanitized
• Patients with multidrug resistant organisms, lice, scabies, etc.
• Patients must wear gown/gloves when leaving room, must have private playroom times
Droplet Precautions – OK • Wear a surgical mask before
entering the room. • Remove mask and wash or foam
hands before leaving room• Borrowed toys/resources must
have hard surfaces that can be sanitized
• Patients with infections transmitted by large particle droplets within 3 feet of patients (ex. Flu)
• Patients may not leave room
Enteric Precautions
• DO NOT ENTER• Borrowed toys/resources
must have hard surfaces that can be sanitized
• Patients with c.diff, norovirus, rotavirus, etc.
• Patients may not leave room
Airborne Precautions• DO NOT ENTER• (Trained staff enter with an
N-95 respirator mask)• Patients with known or
suspected infections transmitted by small droplet nuclei such as tuberculosis, chickenpox, shingles
• Patients may not leave room