Best info ever for infx control

[gibson0726]

i would love to see this info as a sticky because all nclex takers should know this!

i did not create this amazing list. i found the info posted here on allnurses. i can't remember which forum or even who posted this. i want to thank whoever put this together! i took my nclex today and i knew the answers to several questions because i memorized this:

airborne precaution

my - measles

chicken - chickenpox

hez - herpes zoster (disseminated)

tb - tb

private room

negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges per hour

uv

mask

n95 mask for tb

droplet precaution

think of spiderman!

s - sepsis

s - scarlet fever

s - streptococcal pharyngitis

p - parvovirus b19

p - pertussis

p - pneumonia

i - influenza

d - diptheria (pharyngeal)

e - epiglottitis

r - rubella

m - mumps

m - meningitis

m - mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia

an - adenovirus

private room

mask

contact precaution

mrs.wee

m - multidrug resistant organism

r - respiratory infection - rsv

s - skin infections

w - wound infections

e - enteric infections - clostridium defficile

e - eye infections

skin infections:

v - varicella zoster

c - cutaneous diptheria

h - herpes simplex

i - impetigo

p - pediculosis

s - scabies, staphylococcus

private room

gloves

gown

[derbosfer]

Yes!! This should be a sticky!!!!!

This would have helped SO much for studying for the exam! Half of the NCLEX was on Safety and Infection Control alone! (or at least it felt like it!)

[dreamann]

I took the NCLEX-RN today and agree that this was the best study information that I could have received. I found it randomly in a quote from a post too. Whoever the original poster of this information is, Thank you!!!!

[NYRN08]

actually it is already in a sticky...you can find it above in the "anyone up for random fact throwing."

[LMRN10]

I happened to find it the other day too...it was under the random fact sticky, but there are a million pages there. But yes, I printed this out as well!! Good info!

[caliotter3]

Thanks for pulling this info out of the million page long thread. Good info for anyone getting ready to test.

[dannangelo]

Yes, I have also used this same post about infection control to great effect.

When I took my exam last Thursday, it seemed like I was able to answer questions related to infection control thanks to these very, very awesome mnemonics(and reading up articles at cdc.gov).

I highly recommend that anyone planning to take the NCLEX memorize these mnemonics.