Personal care, infection control and hand-washing To prevent infection:
Universal precautions are ways of making sure that every person who has direct contact with body fluids will be protected in case the fluid are infectious or carry a disease. Almost no one thinks of 'protecting themselves' from a baby. Universal precautions are especially important to prevent the transmission of blood-borne and other infectious diseases, such as the kind your baby may be exposed to if he or she spends a lot of time in the hospital. Examples of the universal precautions that have been adopted by the federal government include:
Universal precautions are equally important to everyone. If universal precautions are consistently used, the spread of infProviding personal care, feeding children with disabilities |
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