Living Our Core Value: Quality & Patient Safety

1. Living Our Core Value: Quality & Patient Safety Infection Control Mandatory EducationFY08

2. Key Learning Points • Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands! • Always use Standard Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment. • Familiarize yourself withour Isolation Guidelines.

3. What is the best way for you to prevent the spread of infection and disease? Wash your hands!

4. Key Learning Point #1Wash your hands, wash your hands, WASH YOUR HANDS! • The Joint Commission mandates 100% compliance with CDC guidelines. • Most important actionto prevent the spread of infection. • 100,000 estimated deaths in hospitals linked to infections that hand washing could prevent.

5. When should you wash your hands? • When they are soiled. • After using the restroom. • Before eating. • Before & after providing direct patient care. • When your hands may be contaminated. • After removing gloves. • Before going home.

6. Key Learning Point #2 Always use Standard Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment • OSHA and NIOSH requirements. • Assume every patient has something that is infectious or contagious - protect yourself accordingly. • LHS provides a wide variety of protection.

7. Gowns Gloves Goggles Face masks Face shields Jumpsuits PAPR’s N-95 respirators What PPE does Legacy provide?

8. Key Learning Point #3 Familiarize yourself with our Isolation Guidelines • CDC guidelines exist to prevent spread of infectious and contagious diseases to all staff, volunteers and visitors. • Legacy policy LHS.600.25 contains the key pieces of information.

9. Additional Precautions Contact Precautions for uncontained excretionsand secretions. • Examples: opened drainage devices, massive burns, easily transmitted infections (VRE, C. difficile diarrhea)

10. Droplet Precautions to protect against inhaling or coming into contact with infectious respiratory droplets. Examples: pertussis, any febrile coughing illness such as influenza Additional Precautions

11. Airborne Precautionsto protect against lingering airborne particles. Examples: TB, Chickenpox, measles, disseminated shingles Additional Precautions

12. TRANSMISSION BASED PRECAUTIONS • Requires an Isolation sign on patient’s door identifying type of precaution and PPE required • Order must be placed in eChart/Cerner and update Awarix

15. Protect Yourself & Others No matter who you are, where you work and what you do, minimize the spread of infection in our environment. • Wash your hands, wash your hands, wash your hands! • Always use Standard Precautions and Personal Protective Equipment. • Familiarize yourself with our Isolation Guidelines.

16. Additional Resources • LHS Intranet. Infection Control and Employee Health Policies start with the number 600. • www.cdc.gov • Hospital Infection Control Practitioner. • After hours, contact House Supervisor for assistance; if they are unable to assist, they can contact the Infection Control Practitioner on call for urgent needs.