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