Infection Control

Standard precautions for nurses — hand hygiene, PPE selection, respiratory hygiene, safe sharps handling, injection safety, and environmental cleaning applied to all patients in every care setting.

Transmission-based precautions for nurses — contact, droplet, and airborne precautions with PPE requirements, patient placement, transport rules, and combined precaution scenarios.

Healthcare-associated infections for nurses — CAUTI, CLABSI, VAP, and SSI prevention bundles, risk factors, nursing interventions, and bundle elements for NCLEX and clinical practice.

PPE fundamentals for nurses — gloves, gowns, masks, N95 respirators, eye protection, correct donning sequence, doffing sequence, and selection guidance for infection control.

Latent vs active TB, airborne precautions and the N95/negative-pressure room, RIPE drug therapy and its toxicities, directly observed therapy, and patient teaching.

Bacterial vs viral STIs, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis stages, herpes, HPV, and trichomoniasis — partner treatment, reportable-disease requirements, and nonjudgmental teaching that prevents reinfection.

PPE requirements, room placement, and transport precautions by isolation type — nursing workflow chart for contact, droplet, and airborne precautions with entry/exit sequences.

How infection spreads — contact, droplet, and airborne transmission mechanisms with particle sizes, travel distances, environmental survival, and the science behind each precaution type.

PPE selection matrix for nurses — clinical situation cross-referenced with gloves, gown, surgical mask, N95, and eye protection requirements for standard and transmission-based precautions.

Infection prevention bundles chart for nurses — CAUTI, CLABSI, VAP, and SSI bundle elements, nursing priorities, and monitoring criteria organized for quick review.

Common organism precautions chart for nurses — MRSA, VRE, C. diff, TB, influenza, RSV, measles, and more: precaution type, PPE, hand hygiene method, room requirements, and key nursing notes.

Latent TB infection vs active TB disease — symptoms, infectiousness, chest X-ray and sputum findings, test results, isolation needs, and treatment differences.

Chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, genital herpes, HPV, and trichomoniasis compared by cause, hallmark findings, treatment, and the key nursing and teaching points for each.