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

[seijidan]

So according to the mneumonics,

Airborne: mask

droplet: mask

contact: gloves, gown?

Others say follow the mneumonics. But other people are saying this and that. So what exactly do you wear when going inside the patients room with these precautions?

CDC both have contact and droplet as same. but according to some, airborne and droplet are gown, gloves, and mask. PLS help passer

[Petals01]

Thanks so much for the Infection control mnemonic. I take my NCLEX soon!!!!

[dumb]

:D:Dthank you!!!!!

Im sure this will help many future test takers :)

[mb1949]

Thanks for the clues, I took my NCLEX in August but never got back to thank you for the help, i actually had a few questions this helped me with.

[missladyrn]

bump per request

[mia_09]

thanks for sharing this info...god bless!!!:dancgrp:

[cyram81APRN, MSN]

I love the mnemonics, I wish I came across this earlier. =) I'm going to bookmarked this!

[Seas]

Thank you for this!

[Soseki]

The question that I have is that on the test you will have to put people in rooms with others that have one of these and on the list, as well as the CDC's site, there all listed as private rooms.

[nclexRNtaker]

thanks! i live off mnemonics:)

[nclexRNtaker]

Thank you! This is great:bowingpur

[Suziecute]

Thanks guys this will be helpful.:rotfl: