Handwashing remains the #1 standard universal precaution for infection control.
Disposable gloves remains the #2 standard.
Masks, gowns, or eye goggles can be used if appropriate to the situation. For example, during the Fall 2009 H1N1 outbreak, many health professionals and citizens wore masks to decease the risk of acquiring an upper respiratory flu.
Depends what you are dealing with, but the most basic thing is washing your hands frequently.
The standard precautions when administering medication include ensuring you have the right medication and dosage. These are intended at protecting patients from any possible harm.
Additional infection control precautions is necessary when standard precautions are not sufficient.They are used in addition to standard precautions and are usually tailored to prevent the transmission of specific infections in the health care setting.
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Infection prevention is taking preliminary actions to help not getting an infection.
Any injection done without standard precautions and asepsis can introduce sources of infection into the human body.
The primary level of preventing infections is the prevention of the infection. The primary prevention of infection includes hand washing, and other preventative techniques.
Where infectious diseases are the issue, there is no difference between universal precautions and standard precautions. The suite of procedures called "universal precautions" should now be the standard precautions used in all cases of patient contact.
Standard Based Precaution is the first step in implementing precautions, whether Transmission Based or Universal Based Precautions.
The blood borne pathogen standard results in the use of Universal Precautions.
Standard precautions must always used when delivering patient care.
Yes; and they use standard precautions with all patients as well.
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