P.R.I.D.E.-preventing respiratory infectious disease exposures: An improvement project in a Northern Californian emergency room.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing respiratory infectious disease exposures is a performance improvement project to reduce the incidence of occupational health exposures among health care workers. This project encouraged registered nurses to quickly identify and isolate potentially infectious patients in the emergency room, to prevent exposures to airborne and droplet transmitted communicable diseases, including meningitis, tuberculosis, and measles.

Methods

This pre- and postintervention model implemented a quasi-experimental designed project in the emergency room (ER). The Centers for Disease Control's empiric transmission-based isolation precautions were implemented to prevent occupational health exposures. Eighty registered nurses (RN's) received education on the new intervention. Th

SUBMITTER: Cole J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7406469 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature