How should you manage entry and exit to a resident room to prevent spread of infection?

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How should you manage entry and exit to a resident room to prevent spread of infection?

Protecting you and others starts with using the right PPE before you enter a resident’s room and doing hand hygiene when you leave. Put on the appropriate PPE first, following the room’s isolation signage. This barrier helps prevent pathogens from entering your own system and stops what you carry from spreading to the resident or to other areas. When you’re finished, take off PPE in the proper order and perform hand hygiene before you leave. Cleaning your hands after removing PPE removes any contaminants you may have picked up and stops cross-contamination as you move to other tasks or areas. The signage tells you exactly what precautions are required for that room, so you don’t miss a needed piece of protection. Entering without PPE risks exposure and contaminating others; removing PPE after leaving without hand hygiene can spread pathogens; entering with PPE but skipping hand hygiene on exit also allows contamination to persist; removing PPE before entering fails to provide the necessary barrier in the room.

Protecting you and others starts with using the right PPE before you enter a resident’s room and doing hand hygiene when you leave. Put on the appropriate PPE first, following the room’s isolation signage. This barrier helps prevent pathogens from entering your own system and stops what you carry from spreading to the resident or to other areas. When you’re finished, take off PPE in the proper order and perform hand hygiene before you leave. Cleaning your hands after removing PPE removes any contaminants you may have picked up and stops cross-contamination as you move to other tasks or areas. The signage tells you exactly what precautions are required for that room, so you don’t miss a needed piece of protection.

Entering without PPE risks exposure and contaminating others; removing PPE after leaving without hand hygiene can spread pathogens; entering with PPE but skipping hand hygiene on exit also allows contamination to persist; removing PPE before entering fails to provide the necessary barrier in the room.

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