Question

1. What are the different PPE that need to be worn for the following: Standard Precautions Contact Precautions Droplet Precautions Airborne Precautions 2. Read the profiles of the patients provided and determine which patient is at greatest risk of infection. Explain why this patient's risk is highest and provide 3 nursing interventions aimed at reducing the patient's infection risk based upon their specific risk factors Patient A: A 53-year-old woman who takes prednisone daily for lupus. She is admitted to the hospital for routine post-op care following a routine hysterectomy. Her surgery was laparoscopic. Patient B: A 78-year-old man who takes Lipitor for high cholesterol. He was admitted to the hospital 2 days ago with cellulitis and has been on intravenous antibiotics for 24 hours. His condition is improving. Patient C: A 44-year-old man who takes metformin for type II diabetes. He was hospitalized for an exestuation of asthma eight hours ago. He is being given high dose steroids and oxygen to help his breathing.

Answer 1

1. The PPE that are need to be worn for the following precaution are as follows,

• For the Standard precaution the staff need to wash their hand with soap and water ( hand hygiene ) and to wear gloves.
• For the Contact precaution the staff should need to use the following PPE such as Hand hygiene, the proper gloves and fluid resistant types of gown.
• For the Droplet Precaution the Health care provider should need to apply hand hygiene, wear gloves and gown and also mask and goggle
• For Airborne precaution the HCP should need to have a hand hygiene, and to use usual gloves and gown and to significantly use the Respirator or N95 mask to prevent airborne transfer of infection.

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2. From the given Examples of patients, Patient A who had a laparoscopic hysterectomy admitted to Post op for routine care has the greatest risk for infection. Because she is suffering from lupus disease and her immune systems was poor in function so she may have a more chance of getting infection.

Following are the three nursing intervention to reduce the risk of infection,

• provide care to the incision site where the surgery took place.
• protect the client from secondary infection that are evolved from hospital setting
• provide hygienic care and treat the client safely from free of infection.