Precautions

Question 1

Droplet precautions diseases

Answer 1

• Bacterial meningitis
• Rubella
• Neisseria meningitidis
• influenza
• Mumps
• Rhinovirus/Adenovirus
• Epiglottis
• Pertussis (whooping cough)
• RSV + contact
• Mycoplasma pneumonia

Question 2

Airborne precautions diseases

Answer 2

• Rubeola (measles)
• TB
• Varicella (chicken pox) + contact
• Sars
• varicella-zoster virus (smallpox)

Question 3

Contact precautions

Answer 3

• Pediculosis (head lice)
• MRSA
• Herpes
• RSV + droplet
• varicella + airborne
• vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE)

Question 4

Standard precautions

Answer 4

• Cryptococcosis pneumonia (fungal infection not transmitted to humans)
• Viral meningitis
• Legionnaires’ disease (water and soil)
• H. pylori
• urticaria
• anthrax
• HIV
• infectious mononucleosis (IM)

Question 5

Contact Enteric

Answer 5

• C. Diff/Staph
• Norovirus
• Rotavirus

Question 6

Droplet precautions rules

Answer 6

• mask
• private room

Question 7

Airborne precautions rules

Answer 7

• mask
• private room with negative pressure

Question 8

Contact precautions rules

Answer 8

• gown
• gloves
• disposable equipment
• private room with same infection patients
• UAP can place PPE OUTSIDE of room