It was pretty awesome to watch my daughter get her nursing pin this past weekend.
Today we have the last post for Safety and Infection control.
Part 1 is here –
Part 2 is here –
Today we’ll be covering –
Handling hazardous and infectious materials
Precautions and Surgical Asepsis
Use of restraints
This section is super important, especially the section over precautions. We do a general review when folks we tutor take the test and almost all of them have at least one question on their test related to precaution.
** Handling Hazardous and Infectious materials ***
A great link- https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/handling-hazardous-infectious-materials/
Saunders has some of that 192 and 193.
Precautions and Surgical Asepsis (IMPORTANT)
A great overview of the disease process can be found here –
https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/standard-precautions-transmission-based-surgical-asepsis/
Some great Mnemonics – watch the video too.
And finally some great information from the CDC – make sure to check out their link for “Standard Precautions” as well.
https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/basics/transmission-based-precautions.html
Use of restraints
Finally we have restraints.
A great pdf (overview) of restraints.
https://www.americannursetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/ant1-Restraints-1218.pdf
https://www.registerednursing.org/nclex/use-restraints-safety-devices/
Questions – here are some links to some great questions.
The next time we post will be after Christmas / New Years – spend some time with your family and friends.
