Patient Isolation Scenarios 1. You have a patient on contact and airborne isolation. You have taken her VS and want to w

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Patient Isolation Scenarios
1. You have a patient on contact and airborne isolation. You
have taken her VS and want to write them down to avoid forgetting
them. Your pen and paper are in your pocket. What would you do?
What equipment would be necessary to take the above pt’s VS?
2. Your patient is on contact isolation for a draining infected
chest wound. To prevent spread when taking the pt. to X-Ray, what
would you do?
3. Your patient is on airborne and contact isolation and you
want to send a sputum specimen to the lab. How would you do
this?
4. Your patient is on airborne and contact isolation. The
isolation cart has no more isolation gowns. What would you do?
5. Mr. Jackson is admitted to the ER and when he is entered into
the computer, it notes that he was recently discharged with active
VRE. What would you do?
6. A medical student walks out of your patient’s room with gown,
gloves and mask on saying that she is just going around the corner
to get equipment to draw your patient’s blood. What would you
do?