[dover]

I am fairly new ADON at a long term care facility and I am preparing to give my 1st inservice on infection control next week. I would like to find some type of visual aids (such as handout sheets) or info on where to find some type of literature on the internet. Any suggestions or literature would be greatly appreciated. I have had trouble finding things on the internet that don't cost any $$ (I'm on a tight budget).

[NurseStace]

Dover,

If you find anything, shoot it my way. I'm in the same boat. I work in home care and am doing an inservice on handwashing and infection control in the home. I'm trying to find anything that can tell me what little germies are living on your hands and what they can do to you. Most of the girls and the guy that work for me are minimally educated. Some of them are CNAs some of them are just life experience people. I have to find and do inservices that they can understand. If you find a good spot on the net where you can get that stuff for free ( I have NO budget) please let me know..

Thanks,

Stace

[purplemania]

well, Glo-Germ has a kit for about $50 that has powder or gel (you choose) to put on hands then check with the black light from the kit for "germs". If you cover an object with the powder then pass it around the room then look at the hands you will see how germs are spread.

[sirI]

I know I am a little too late to assist you, dover, but, you can find help through OSHA. Many charts on this as well as handouts....

[chadash]

I was watching house last night, and they had a man with active TB. They were not using airbourne precautions. What is appropriate in a hosp. with a TB pt?

[VickyRN]

Originally Posted by chadash

I was watching house last night, and they had a man with active TB. They were not using airbourne precautions. What is appropriate in a hosp. with a TB pt?

You are correct, but such is the genre of these TV "medical" shows. Tuberculosis is an airborne communicable disease that enters the body when one breathes in tiny "droplet nuclei" released from an infected person. These respiratory secretions are released when a person with active infectious TB coughs, sneezes, laughs, sings, or talks with projection without proper covering of the mouth and nose. These tiny droplet nuclei can remain suspended in the air for hours.

In a hospital setting, if a patient is suspected to have TB, he/ she should be put on airborne precautions and immediately isolated in a private room with negative air pressure and outside exhaust. There is a special anteroom in which visitors must first enter. All doors and windows must be kept closed. Special NIOSH-approved filter respirator masks must be worn by all health care workers or visitors entering the room. If the patient is to go for tests or procedures outside of his/ her room, the patient must wear a mask.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/99-143.html

http://www.continuingeducation.com/p...=1131320770&t=

http://www.nursingworld.org/osh/tb.pdf

[chadash]

Thanks! I appreciate the explanation!

[VickyRN]

I know this information is too late to assist Dover, but perhaps will be of benefit to some of our members:

http://www.hivdent.org/infctl/_icmanual.htm
http://depts.washington.edu/ictrain/icmanual/
http://depts.washington.edu/ictrain/...l/icmanual.doc
http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu.../ic-manual.cfm