What does the NCLEX want for RSV? Contact or Droplet?

[david.cummiskey]

I keep reading from multiple sources that RSV is Droplet and from others Contact precautions. What is the official isolation precaution? Does anyone know? It seems pretty up in the air.

[ChiSmile6]

Contact according to Saunders (along with MRSA, cdiff, impetigo, varicella)

[unadunad]

DROPLET - Just remember SPIDERMAN

Sepsis

Scarlet fever

Streptococcal pharyngitis

Pertussis

Parvovirus B19

Pneumonia

Influenza

Diptheria (pharyngeal)

Epiglottidis

Rubella

RSV

Mumps

Meningitis

Mycoplasma

Adenovirus

FYI i took this from another thread

This is really helpful,I memorized this pneumonics,including My(Measles)Chicken (Chicken Pox)=Has(Herpes) TB(Tuberculosis) which is airborne,MRSWEE,and the other one.The one who made this is an angel lol.Thanks to him/her as i passed my exam(I had more than 10 questions on Infection control:uhoh3:).

[ChiSmile6]

herpes is airborne?

[KAYBDT6, BSN, RN]

herpes is airborne?

Nope! herpes is contact precaution:typing

[lilygrl2468]

There are different types of herpes so you have to be careful with what you say. Herpes simplex is contact until lesions are dry and crusted. Herpes zoster which is varicella zoster (chickenpox) and shingles are airborne/contact precautions. Go to the CDC's website, they have precautions for every illness.

[Mariposa2009, BSN, RN]

There are different types of herpes so you have to be careful with what you say. Herpes simplex is contact until lesions are dry and crusted. Herpes zoster which is varicella zoster (chickenpox) and shingles are airborne/contact precautions. Go to the CDC's website, they have precautions for every illness.

Actually, herpes simplex i.e. oral, genital, etc. is standard precautions b/c it's localized. If the pt is immunocompromised or the herpes is disseminated (spread throughout the body), then it would be contact. Also if a neonate contracts herpes from the mother contact precautions are used.

[NurseLil-lea]

Suppose they do, What is the right way to handle this type of question???

[mskwak2011]

Hogan says "contact" though RSV can live for several hours on non-porous surface.

[unadunad]

this is really helpful,i memorized this pneumonics,including my(measles)chicken (chicken pox)=has(herpes) tb(tuberculosis) which is airborne,mrswee,and the other one.the one who made this is an angel lol.thanks to him/her as i passed my exam(i had more than 10 questions on infection control:uhoh3:).

sorry,it should be hz=herpez zoster,it can be direct contact,droplet or airborne spread of blister fluid, or secretions of the resp. tract or vesicle fluid of patients with hz.also indirectly via articles freshly soiled by dischargs from the blisters and mucuos mem. of infected people.

going back to the question: rsv is contact precautions

[nkara, CNA]

wow.. it's droplet on my pedi floor too.

[celclt]

CDC says transmision is via both droplet and contact (direct and indirect).

http://www.cdc.gov/RSV/about/transmission.html

[ChiSmile6]

ha..good question!