Sterile Procedures

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION

• LESSON 1

  • Section I. REVIEW

    • 1-1. INTRODUCTION

    • 1-2. DEFINITIONS

    • 1-3. CLASSIFICATION OF PATHOGENS

    • 1-4. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

  • Section II. PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF INFECTION

    • 1-5. PREVENTION OF WOUND INFECTION

    • 1-6. BODY DEFENSES

    • 1-7. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF INFECTION

    • 1-8. CYCLE OF INFECTION

  • Section III. BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS

    • 1-9. HEALTH CARE WORKERS AT RISK

    • 1-10. DEFINITIONS

    • 1-11. BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS: HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AND HEPATITIS B VIRUS

    • 1-12. UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS

  • EXERCISES

  • SOLUTIONS

• LESSON 2

  • MEDICAL ASEPSIS

    • 2-1. GENERAL

    • 2-2. ASEPTIC TECHNIQUE

    • 2-3. STERILIZATION

    • 2-4. DISINFECTION

    • 2-5. PROCEDURE FOR APPLYING MEDICAL ASEPSIS

  • EXERCISES

  • SOLUTIONS

• LESSON 3

  • SURGICAL ASEPSIS AND STERILE TECHNIQUE

    • 3-1. PRINCIPLES OF STERILE TECHNIQUE

    • 3-2. BASIC STEPS IN STERILE TECHNIQUE

    • 3-3. CREATING A STERILE FIELD

    • 3-4. ADDING STERILE OBJECTS TO A STERILE FIELD

    • 3-5. GIVING STERILE ITEMS TO ANOTHER WORKER

    • 3-6. OPENING AND POURING STERILE LIQUIDS

    • 3-7. ASSISTING WITH THE WITHDRAWAL OF STERILE SOLUTION FROM A VIAL

    • 3-8. NOTIFYING PERSONNEL THAT STERILE FIELD IS CONTAMINATED

  • EXERCISES

  • SOLUTIONS

• LESSON 4

  • Section I. CHANGING A STERILE DRESSING

    • 4-1. PURPOSE OF DRESSINGS

    • 4-2. DRESSING MATERIALS

    • 4-3. BANDAGES AND TAPES

    • 4-4. REQUIREMENT TO CHANGE OR REINFORCE A DRESSING

    • 4-5. REMOVING A SOILED DRESSING

    • 4-6. CLEANSING A WOUND

    • 4-7. PROCEDURES FOR APPLYING A STERILE DRESSING

    • 4-8. FINAL PROCEDURES

  • Section II. WOUND IRRIGATION

    • 4-9. PURPOSE

    • 4-10. PROCEDURE FOR IRRIGATING A WOUND

  • Section III. PREPARING A WOUND FOR OPERATIVE TREATMENT

    • 4-11. GENERAL

    • 4-12. PREPARE PATIENT AND MATERIALS

    • 4-13. PREPARE THE WOUND AREA

    • 4-14. FINAL PROCEDURES

  • EXERCISES

  • SOLUTIONS

• LESSON 5

  • Section I. Types of Isolation

    • 5-1. CATEGORIES OF ISOLATION

    • 5-2. SIGNS USED TO IDENTIFY TYPES OF ISOLATION

  • Section II. ISOLATION TECHNIQUES

    • 5-3. GENERAL

    • 5-4. ROOM

    • 5-5. HOSPITAL PERSONNEL

    • 5-6. EQUIPMENT

    • 5-7. SUPPLIES AND OTHER ITEMS

    • 5-8. CLEANING

    • 5-9. VISITORS

    • 5-10. TRANSPORTING PATIENTS

  • EXERCISES

  • SOLUTIONS

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