Explain the importance of Standard Precautions and transmission-based precautions.

Explanation should include

• ways diseases are transmitted
• ways to prevent transmission
• chain of infection
• bloodborne pathogens standards
• Standard Precautions per CDC protocol
• hand hygiene
• personal protective equipment (PPE)
• types of isolation.

Teacher resource: The Safety Best Practice Guide for CTE Links to an external site., VDOE

Process/Skill Questions:

• What is the chain of infection?
• What PPE goes with each type of isolation?