Hand Hygiene Test | CareCo HomeHealth

1. Why is it important to practice infection control?

You could carry germs from one patient to all the others.

Many of your patients are highly susceptible to infection

Many of your patients would experience serious consequences of infection.

All of above.

2. If your hands are visibly soiled, you should:

Use alcohol hand rub.

Wash your hands.

Use hand rub, then wash your hands.

Wipe them off with a dry towel.

3. You should perform hand hygiene:

Before caring for your patient

After caring for a patient, even though you wore gloves

When you get home from your shift

All of the above.

4. According to the CDC, handwashing should take:

10 seconds

0 minutes

At least 15 seconds

As long as it takes until hands looks clean

5. To take your gloves off, you should:

Have someone else help you

Carefully take them off and put them away for later use

Pull them from the fingertips

Remove one glove, hold it in the gloved hand and then roll it up in the second glove