Infection Control Precautions: What to Do Okay to enter: – Protective Precautions – Contact Precautions (with gown,gloves) – Droplet Precautions (with mask) DO NOT ENTER: – Enteric Precautions – Airborne Precautions

Protective Precautions – OK Designed to protect immunosuppressed patients Wash hands before entering room (Standard precautions for all our patients) Patients must wear mask when leaving room, must have private playroom times

Contact Precautions - OK Wear gown and gloves BEFORE entering room Remove gown and gloves before leaving, and wash or foam hands before leaving Borrowed toys/resources must have hard surfaces that can be sanitized Patients with multidrug resistant organisms, lice, scabies, etc. Patients must wear gown/gloves when leaving room, must have private playroom times

Droplet Precautions – OK Wear a surgical mask before entering the room. Remove mask and wash or foam hands before leaving room Borrowed toys/resources must have hard surfaces that can be sanitized Patients with infections transmitted by large particle droplets within 3 feet of patients (ex. Flu) Patients may not leave room

Enteric Precautions DO NOT ENTER Borrowed toys/resources must have hard surfaces that can be sanitized Patients with c.diff, norovirus, rotavirus, etc. Patients may not leave room

Airborne Precautions DO NOT ENTER (Trained staff enter with an N-95 respirator mask) Patients with known or suspected infections transmitted by small droplet nuclei such as tuberculosis, chickenpox, shingles Patients may not leave room