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Isolation Precautions Mnemonics for NCLEX

Studying isolation precautions (also called transmission-based precautions) and need help trying to remember all the diseases that are included in each precaution? Look no further, I have three isolation mnemonics that will help you remember the diseases included with each precaution and the special PPE you must wear at all times!

I created these mnemonics to help you not only remember the diseases included with each precaution BUT if they are for airborne, droplet, or contact AND the special PPE you must wear!

Don’t forget to take the free isolation precautions review quiz.

Lecture on Isolation Mnemonics

Mnemonics for Isolation Precautions

Droplet Precautions

Diseases included with droplet precautions: 

  • Pharyngeal Diphtheria
  • Epiglottitis, (caused by Haemophilus influenza type b)
  • Flu (contact and droplet)
  • Meningococcal Disease: Sepsis, Pneumonia, meningitis
  • Mumps (infectious parotitis)
  • Pneumonia
  • Mycoplasma Pneumonia
  • Parvovirus B19 (erythema infectiosum or 5th disease)
  • Pneumonic Plague
  • Adenovirus (contact and droplet)
  • Streptococcal pharyngitis
  • Whooping Cough (pertussis)
  • Rhinovirus
  • Scarlet fever
  • Rubella (German Measles)

Who’s Adjustable Droplet Mask Stops Scary Pneumatic Fluid Parasites Plaguing Distinguished German Men?  My Epic Mum’s, Rhonda.

Who’s: Whooping Cough

Adjustable: Adenovirus (remember ADD contact precautions as well)

Droplet: type of precaution

Mask: PPE you must wear at all times

Stops: Streptococcal pharyngitis

Scary: Scarlet fever

Pneumatic: Pneumonia

Fluid: Flu (influenza)

Parasites: Parvovirus B19

Plaguing: Pneumonic Plague

Distinguished: Diphtheria

German: German Measles (Rubella)

Men: Meningococcal Disease: Meningitis, sEpsis, pNemonia

My: Mycoplasma Pneumonia

Epic: Epiglottitis

Mum‘s: Mumps

Rhonda: Rhinovirus

Airborne Precautions

Diseases included with airborne precautions: 

  • Chicken Pox (varicella) (Airborne and Contact)
  • Herpes Zoster (Varicella Zoster(disseminated) Shingles (Airborne and Contact)
  • Measles (Rubeola)
  • M. Tuberculosis

Airborne Chicken Number 95 Dissected Her Tubby Mealworm

Airborne: type of isolation precaution

Chicken: Chicken Pox (Varicella)

Number 95: N95 mask…special PPE you must wear at all times

Dissected Her: Disseminated Herpes Zoster (Shingles)

Tubby: Tuberculosis

Mealworm: Measles

Contact Precautions

Diseases included with contact precautions: 

  • Medication-Resistant Organisms: MRSA, VRE, extended spectrum beta lactamase producers (ESBLs), Klebsiella pnemoniae carbapenemase (KPC)
  • Diarrhea infections or of unknown origin: C.diff, noravirus, rotavirus…..USE SOAP AND WATER FOR HAND WASHING NOT hand-sanitizer.
    • NOTE: Hepatitis A. (if patient is diapered or incontinent pt)..remember it is spread through stool
  • Skin infection: impetigo, lice, scabies, herpes simplex, chickenpox (airborne and contact), skin diphtheria, shingles (airborne and contact)
  • Wound infections with excessive drainage or staphylococci
  • Pulmonary infections: RSV, parainfluenza
  • Eye infection: conjunctivitis

Don Medical Glove/Gown With Every Contact Precaution Session

Don: Diarrhea Infections

Medical: Mediation Resistant Organisms

Gloves/Gown: PPE you must always wear at all times

With: Wound Infections

Every: Eye infections

Contact: type of isolation precaution

Precaution: Pulmonary infections

Session: Skin infections

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References:

Protecting Healthcare Personnel | HAI | CDC. (2017). Cdc.gov. Retrieved 7 January 2017, from https://www.cdc.gov/hai/prevent/ppe.html

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