{"id":113069,"date":"2023-01-18T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/microbial-transmission-routes-in-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T20:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T20:36:43","slug":"microbial-transmission-routes-in-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/microbial-transmission-routes-in-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Microbial transmission routes in hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement\u00a0<strong>Transmission-Based Precautions<\/strong>\u00a0to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to healthcare workers, as well other patients in their care. These Transmission-Based Precautions are designed to supplement standard precautions in patients\/residents with documented or suspected infection\/colonization of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogens. The three categories of Transmission-Based Precautions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Contact Precautions<\/li>\n<li>Droplet Precautions<\/li>\n<li>Airborne Precautions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For your initial post<\/strong>,\u00a0choose one of the Transmission Based Precautions listed above to report on.\u00a0Research your selection and provide answers to the following questions:\u00a0When should the precaution be implemented?\u00a0What type of PPE should be used by a health care worker providing care to the patient?\u00a0Are there any other considerations that apply when caring for a patient with this type of precaution?\u00a0Finally, list some examples of diseases that fall into this category.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hospitals and other healthcare settings will often implement\u00a0Transmission-Based Precautions\u00a0to prevent or help reduce the spread of infections to healthcare workers, as well other patients in their care. These Transmission-Based Precautions are designed to supplement standard precautions in patients\/residents with documented or suspected infection\/colonization of highly transmissible or epidemiologically important pathogens. The three categories of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}