Standard precautions • Respect hand hygiene before and after any patient contact and after contact with contaminated items, whether or not gloves are worn. Wear personal protective equipment based on risk assessment and to avoid contact with blood, body fluids, excretions, and secretions.

Is HIV contact or droplet?

Elliott Churchill, M,A. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is transmitted through sexual contact and exposure to infected blood or blood components and perinatally from mother to neonate.

What kind of PPE is used for HIV?

These include: hand hygiene; use of gloves, gown, mask, eye protection or face shield, depending on the anticipated exposure; and safe injection practices.

What are standard precautions?

Standard precautions are a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases that can be acquired by contact with blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including rashes), and mucous membranes.

What diseases are contact precautions?

Contact Precautions—used for infections, diseases, or germs that are spread by touching the patient or items in the room (examples: MRSA, VRE, diarrheal illnesses, open wounds, RSV).

When are standard precautions used?

Standard Precautions are used for all patient care. They’re based on a risk assessment and make use of common sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection and prevent the spread of infection from patient to patient.

What are standard precautions PPE?

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Standard Precautions

• Gloves.
• Gowns.
• Masks and Respirators.
• Other Face and Eye Protection.
• Hand Hygiene – always – following any patient contact.

What are the 5 types of precautions?

Infection Control and Prevention – Transmission-based precautions

• Contact Precautions.
• Droplet Precautions.
• Airborne Precautions.
• Eye Protection.

Do you wear an N95 for droplet precautions?

A respirator or N95 face mask is NOT necessary but can be used for the care of a patient on Droplet Precautions. Remember, that you should continue to use Standard Precautions during patient care in addition to Droplet Precautions.

Which is part of contact precautions?

A. The term “contact precautions” means that everyone coming into a patient’s room is asked to wear a gown and gloves.

What infections require airborne precautions?

Diseases requiring airborne precautions include, but are not limited to: Measles, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), Varicella (chickenpox), and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Preventing airborne transmission requires personal respiratory protection and special ventilation and air handling.