What precautions are needed for contact precautions?
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Doctors, nurses and other health care workers must always use Standard Precautions (good hand washing prior to entering your child’s room and after leaving your child’s room) to limit the risk of spreading infections. Health care workers may use gloves, gowns, masks, eye protection or face shields when taking care of your child. These precautions are required at all hospitals by Federal law to protect patients as well as health care workers. Transmission-Based Precautions (Isolation) are used along with Standard Precautions when the spread of infection might not be completely stopped when using only Standard Precautions.
Contact Precautions
Ways you can help your child:
What Contact Precautions MeansA red sign will be posted at the entrance to your child’s room when these precautions are needed so that everyone entering knows what to wear (Picture 1). Everyone (parents, family, guests, and healthcare workers) must wash their hands with soap and water or use waterless alcohol-based hand rub when entering and leaving the room.
Gloves
How to remove glovesGownsGowns must be worn by parents when taking care of their child (Picture 2).
The front and the sleeves of the gown have germs on them, so it is important to remove it promptly. How to remove the gownHand HygieneHand hygiene involves either washing hands with soap and water or killing germs on the hands with a waterless alcohol-based hand rub. Proper hand hygiene is one of the best ways to stop the spread of germs and prevent infections. To prevent your child or you from getting unwanted germs, wash hands with soap and water or use a waterless alcohol-based hand rub every time you enter and leave the room. Wash your hands with soap and water at these times:
To use the waterless alcohol-based hand rub:
All doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers know they must perform proper hand hygiene before and after touching a patient, after contact with items near the patient, before putting on gloves for a sterile procedure and after removing gloves. It is all right for you to remind them to perform hand hygiene. Before you leave your child’s room
If you have any questions, be sure to ask a member of your child’s healthcare team. TBP Contact Precautions (PDF) HH-II-176 8/08, Revised 1/18 Copyright 2008, Nationwide Children’s Hospital What are precautions to take when it comes to contact precautions?Gloves. Wear gloves when touching the patient and the patient's immediate environment or belongings.. Remove gloves promptly after use and discard before touching non-contaminated items or environmental surfaces, and before providing care to another patient.. Wash hands immediately after removing gloves.. What are the 4 types of precautions?Infection Control and Prevention - Transmission-based precautions. Contact Precautions. ... . Droplet Precautions. ... . Airborne Precautions. ... . Eye Protection.. What are the 5 precautions?Standard Precautions. Hand hygiene.. Use of personal protective equipment (e.g., gloves, masks, eyewear).. Respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette.. Sharps safety (engineering and work practice controls).. Safe injection practices (i.e., aseptic technique for parenteral medications).. Sterile instruments and devices.. |