Standards Precautions | As Per NABH Norms | Your Friendly Doctor | Doctor Mahesh Kudale

Standards Precautions | As Per NABH Norms
Hygiene should be performed after touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, and contaminated items, immediately after removing gloves, and between patient contacts.
For example, gloves for touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, contaminated items, mucous membranes, and non-intact skin; gowns to be worn during patient procedures and activities involving contact of clothing or exposed skin with blood, body fluids, secretions, and excretions.
Masks, eye protection, and face shields should be worn during procedures that are associated with splashes or sprays of blood, body fluids, and secretions.
For patients with suspected or proven infections transmitted by respiratory aerosols, a fit-tested 95 or higher respirator should also be worn.
Cuts, sores, and wounds on staff and patients should be covered with impermeable dressings.
Used needles should not be recapped, bent, broken, or manipulated by hand.
One-handed scooping techniques should be used only when recapping is required.
In the case of sharp injuries or splashes of body fluids, wash under running cold water, report the injury and seek advice.
All environments should be kept clean.
Waste should be disposed of safely following the correct colour coding and at the point of generation.
Linen is placed directly into the correct coloured linen bag and stored appropriately.
Soiled patient care equipment, linen, textiles, and laundry should be handled appropriately (if visibly contaminated, gloves should be worn, and hand hygiene should be performed). If visibly contaminated, gloves should be worn, and hand hygiene should be performed.
All reusable equipment should be properly sterilized.
All single-use items are discarded properly.
For patient resuscitation, a mouthpiece, resuscitation bag, and other ventilation devices are needed to prevent contact with the mouth and oral secretions.
Single patient rooms are preferred for patients at an increased risk of transmission who are likely to contaminate the environment, who do not maintain appropriate hygiene, and/or who are at an increased risk of acquiring infection, or having an adverse outcome following infection.
Respiratory hygiene and CC ugh etiquette should include source containment of infectious respiratory secretions in symptomatic patients. Those who are sneezing or coughing should cover their mouth and nose, use tissues and dispose of them in no-touch receptacles, practise hand hygiene if hands are soiled with respiratory secretions, and wear surgical masks and gloves or face shields. The distance from the patient should be more than three feet.
All patients transferred from another health care setting should be scrubbed, if the condition of the patient permits, before moving into the ICU, and nasal swabs for MRSA should be taken and sent.
Also, all the lines are changed and sent for culture.
To Address all of the above issues, NABH has laid down norms so that the patient get the best care and nurses are able to care for them in a less stressful and joyful working environment.
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Dr.Mahesh Kudale - Your Friendly Doctor

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