hi! i already posted this before and posting it the 2nd time...i made up my own mnemonics, except for the airborne precaution which i copied in the april thread...
source: saunder's 3rd ed.
transmission-based precautions: adc
a - airborne
d - droplet
c - contact
airborn​e precaution (credit goes to the one who posted this on april thread, sorry can't remember your name)
my - measles
chicken - chickenpox
hez - herpes zoster (disseminated)
tb - tb
private room
negative pressure with 6-12 air exchanges per hour
Thank you so much for this! The first time I took the NCLEX, I was so surprised at how many infection control questions there was (I hadn't checked out allnurses at that time..I probably would have known better if I had).I definitely printed it off and studied it when I decided to retake the boards and I am so glad that i did because I just found out yesterday that I passed!! And there definitely was infection control questions....SPIDERMAN definietly came to my mind:)
So I pretty much have down the difference between airborne, droplet, and contact precautions, but I'm getting confused about PPE? So when you enter a room with someone with droplet precautions don't you put on gloves, gown, and mask and if in contact with fluids a face shield? I keep on just seeing mask for doplet and the n95 respirator for airborne? Perhaps i am just starting to over think things since doing so many questions. If someone can please just give me their thoughts I would appreciate it taking the test on the 28th!!
So I pretty much have down the difference between airborne, droplet, and contact precautions, but I'm getting confused about PPE? So when you enter a room with someone with droplet precautions don't you put on gloves, gown, and mask and if in contact with fluids a face shield? I keep on just seeing mask for doplet and the n95 respirator for airborne? Perhaps i am just starting to over think things since doing so many questions. If someone can please just give me their thoughts I would appreciate it taking the test on the 28th!!
Hi Chris,
From what I've studied: when you are going into a patient's room with airborne precautions you wear a gown, mask, respirator, gloves. For droplet: gown, mask, gloves all the time, and for contact: gown, gloves Good luck on your exam!
And don't forget... according to the CDC (and Kaplan, as I found out on my question trainer, and NCLEX, apparently), SARS is now Airborne in many situations, so now My Stupid Chicken Has TB!
Specializes in SNU/SNF/MedSurg, SPCU Ortho/Neuro/Spine.
May God bless the OP for this thread, this was a blessing!!!! Very useful, had a few questions on that and all I could think was my poor chicken hez tb and the spiderman married mrs wee. That certainly made the difference, and that was the only thing I wrote on my board at the test, amazing, thank you 1 million times, this was supper simple to memorize, learn and remember
And don't forget... according to the CDC (and Kaplan, as I found out on my question trainer, and NCLEX, apparently), SARS is now Airborne in many situations, so now My Stupid Chicken Has TB!
Had a question like this in n3500. SARS is considered both contact and airborne. Its a respiratory infx sooo. I just think of it as sneezing, first all the good stuff flies then lands
Yeah! this SPIDERMAN helps me too.....in my infection control qs....i :redbeathe this mneumonic very much 
:up: 
Good luck on your exam!
ShalomRN
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Thank you so much for this! The first time I took the NCLEX, I was so surprised at how many infection control questions there was (I hadn't checked out allnurses at that time..I probably would have known better if I had).I definitely printed it off and studied it when I decided to retake the boards and I am so glad that i did because I just found out yesterday that I passed!! And there definitely was infection control questions....SPIDERMAN definietly came to my mind:)