Standard and Additional precautions – Using the word bank complete the sentences in regards to precautions. (fill in the blanks)
Word bank: Mucosa, airborne, fluids, single, all, contact, suspected, infection, skin, known, droplet, co-horted
Maggie requires both standard and additional precautions, standard precautions are infection
control practices used for ……………………………….. patients, regardless of their known
…………………………………… status.
Standard Precautions dictate that personal protective equipment (PPE) must be worn when there
is a risk of contact with body …………………………… fluids , non-intact ………. airbone Or droplet
Infection may be transmitted in various ways. The 3 transmission categories are ……………… ,
………………………………………. and ………………………………………..
Maggie’s type of transmission is………………………………………..
Transmission-Based Precautions are infection control practices used for patients with
…………………………………… Or …………………………………. conditions.
As Maggie has MRSA, an infectious condition she would require additional precautions and should
be nursed in a ………………………………… room or ………………………… in a room with a patient with
the same infectious condition.