Transport should be called to bring PAPR cart to unit
Notifications Required:
Supervisor
Manager
Infection Control at ext. 4376 (leave message if night
shift admission)
Documentation Requirements:
Flowsheet: Documentation of infection and date/time of
initiation of isolation
Care Plan: In the areas of patient teaching,
respiratory, and infection
POE: Under "patient factors"
Patient-oriented Infection Control:
Must wear yellow surgical masks when being transported
out of room
Perform good hand hygiene (soap/water, waterless hand
sanitizer)
Educate on cough etiquette
Tissue should be available for coughing/sneezing
The duration of isolation for patients with an
influenza-like illness: Isolation precautions for patients
who have influenza symptoms should be continued for seven
days after illness onset or until 24 hours after the
resolution of fever and respiratory symptoms, whichever is
longer.
Visitor-oriented Infection Control:
No visitors under age 18.
Only four visitors per patient at any given time allowed.
Visitors should wear surgical masks and isolation gowns
in the room.
Visitors should be reminded not to manipulate their mask
to avoid contamination.
Visitors should practice good hand hygiene entering the
room and leaving the room.
