Infection Control Precautions: What to Do

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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