CCMA - Clinical Patient Care - Section 3.6

Apply standard and transmission-based precautions, including hand hygiene, personal protective equipment selection, and disposal of sharps.

Apply standard precautions - hand hygiene, correct PPE selection, and sharps disposal - to every patient interaction, and layer the appropriate transmission-based precautions for contact, droplet, or airborne pathogens. Distinguish when each precaution category is required to break the chain of infection.

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