Blog 16: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

•   How can nurses best protect themselves from infectious diseases?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

•  One of the best ways for nurses to protect themselves from infectious diseases is hand hygiene. 

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)

•   One of the best ways for nurses to protect themselves from infectious diseases is using their protective equipment like gloves, face masks, scrubs, etc properly.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.

• In hospitals, when their are precaution signs outside a patient's room, it means that contact with the patient and with anything that is inside the room is contaminated.
•  The two nurses that came in contact with Ebola while caring for an Ebola patient, used a special protective equipment to protect themselves from getting it themselves but some how they got it for the reason is that they maybe didn't put their PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) properly. 
• At my mentorship, anyone that enters a patient's room with any precaution sign on their or enter any isolation room, there is PPE provided in the front of the door to anyone who enters the room.

 5.  What printed source best supports your answer?

•  Staf, Guidance For Nursing. "Wipe It out One Chance to Get It Right."

 6.  What other source supports your answer?

• Case, Bette, and Joan Fox Rose. "Ebola and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Best Practices to Keep Nurses Safe."

7.  Tie this together with a  concluding thought.

• Working at a hospital as a nurse, they are at risk in catching a health care-acquired infection (HAI) so using the Personal Protective Equipment properly can lower the risk in catching HAIs. 
  
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf
  a health care-acquired infection (HAI) or inadvertently spreading infection from one patient to another. - See more at: http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/static?pageid=811924#sthash.JIf2nNGb.dpuf