Infection Control Mnemonics

[december2905]

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

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

[ShalomRN]

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:)

[joycee8]

Yeah! this SPIDERMAN helps me too.....in my infection control qs....i :redbeathe this mneumonic very much :up: :redbeathe :redbeathe :redbeathe

[iamnina]

hi guys is pneumococcal pneumonia and mycoplasma pneumonia considered standard precautions or droplet precaution? thanks

[Serlait]

Bumping this up so it's seen by anyone who needs it. Love it!

[caliotter3]

Good mnemonics are always a welcome study aid.

[cchanel]

Great nmeumonics...very helpful! I will be using this next week when I take NCLEX!

Thanks a lot!

[chris82]

Confused about infection control?

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!!

[Luckylefty87]

Confused about infection control?

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!

[wannabHishands]

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!

[Natingale, EdD, RN]

bump :sofahider

[9livesRN, BSN, RN]

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

[ikaryuu]

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

(correct me if im wrong)

GOOD **** BTW! Taking the nclex in 3weeks!