Infection Control Jeopardy

Hand hygiene, isolation precautions, PPE order, and sharps safety in one staff-meeting quiz. Copy it for free and have the unit buzz in on their phones.

6 categories · 30 clues · Final Jeopardy · everyone buzzes in from their phone

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Hand Hygiene

$200
The CDC recommends scrubbing hands with soap for at least this many seconds.
What is 20?
$400
The CDC recommends alcohol-based hand rubs contain at least this percentage of alcohol.
What is 60 percent?
$600
Soap and water beats alcohol rub when caring for patients with this spore-forming bacterium that causes severe diarrhea.
What is C. diff?
$800
The WHO's 5 Moments include cleaning hands after touching these, even if the patient was not touched.
What are the patient's surroundings?
$1,000
In direct patient care these should be kept short, and artificial ones avoided, because they harbor germs.
What are fingernails?

Standard Precautions

$200
Standard precautions treat all blood and most body fluids as potentially this.
What is infectious?
$400
Covering coughs and offering masks to coughing patients in the waiting room is this part of standard precautions.
What is respiratory hygiene?
$600
Standard precautions replaced this 1980s approach, which focused on blood and certain body fluids.
What are universal precautions?
$800
Choosing gloves, gown, mask or eye protection based on the task in front of you is this kind of assessment.
What is a risk assessment?
$1,000
The safe injection motto says one needle, one of these, only one time.
What is a syringe?

Transmission-Based Precautions

$200
Measles and chickenpox call for this type of precautions.
What are airborne precautions?
$400
Influenza, spread by large respiratory particles, calls for this type of precautions.
What are droplet precautions?
$600
MRSA and scabies call for this type of precautions, with gown and gloves.
What are contact precautions?
$800
This kind of airflow keeps air from escaping an airborne infection isolation room into the hallway.
What is negative pressure?
$1,000
At minimum, staff caring for a patient with tuberculosis should wear this fit-tested respirator.
What is an N95?

Donning and Doffing PPE

$200
In the CDC's recommended sequence, this item goes on last when donning.
What are gloves?
$400
Before putting on any PPE, and again right after taking it all off, you should perform this.
What is hand hygiene?
$600
In the CDC's recommended sequence, this item goes on first when donning.
What is the gown?
$800
When removing a gown, roll it this way so the contaminated outside is folded inward.
What is inside out?
$1,000
The front of a mask is considered contaminated, so it should be removed by handling only these.
What are the ties or ear loops?

Cleaning and Disinfection

$200
This common chemical, sodium hypochlorite, is widely used in diluted form to disinfect surfaces.
What is bleach?
$400
The time a disinfectant must stay wet on a surface to work is called this.
What is contact time?
$600
This device sterilizes instruments using pressurized steam.
What is an autoclave?
$800
Bed rails, door handles and call buttons are examples of these frequently touched surfaces that need extra cleaning.
What are high-touch surfaces?
$1,000
Under the Spaulding classification, instruments that enter sterile tissue, like surgical tools, fall into this category.
What is critical?

Sharps and Needlesticks

$200
Used needles go straight into this rigid, puncture-resistant container.
What is a sharps container?
$400
This risky practice of putting the cap back on a used needle with two hands should be avoided.
What is recapping?
$600
Sharps containers should be closed and replaced when they reach this level of fullness.
What is three-quarters full?
$800
The first thing to do after a needlestick is wash the site with these two things.
What are soap and water?
$1,000
This federal law, signed in 2000, required employers to evaluate and use safer needle devices.
What is the Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act?

Final Jeopardy — Medical Pioneers

In the 1840s, this Hungarian physician sharply reduced deaths in a Vienna maternity clinic by requiring doctors to wash their hands in a chlorinated lime solution.

Who was Ignaz Semmelweis?

How to run this board

Infection prevention is mostly habits, and habits slip. This board covers hand hygiene moments, standard precautions, contact, droplet, and airborne precautions, putting on and taking off PPE, environmental cleaning and disinfection, and sharps and needlestick safety.

Use it as a refresher alongside your facility's infection control program and annual competencies, not as a substitute for them. Your own policies and your infection preventionist are the authority, so edit any clue that differs from local practice.

It plays well at a unit huddle split by shift. A useful house rule for the PPE column: the team that buzzes in has to name the donning or doffing order out loud, not just the item.

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