NMC Infection Prevention and Control 3

Question 1

Which practice is essential when using personal protective equipment (PPE) to prevent self-contamination during doffing?

Accepted Answer

Remove gloves last to protect hands during doffing

Answer

Gloves should be removed last during doffing because hands are the most common vehicle of self-contamination; hand hygiene follows immediately.

Question 2

A nurse sustains a needlestick injury from a patient with unknown HIV status. What is the FIRST action to take?

Accepted Answer

Wash the wound thoroughly with soap and water

Answer

The immediate priority after a needlestick is thorough washing with soap and water to reduce the viral load at the exposure site.

Question 3

Standard precautions apply to which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Blood and all body fluids, secretions, and excretions (except sweat)

Answer

Standard precautions apply to blood and all body fluids, secretions, and excretions (except sweat), regardless of infection status.

Question 4

A nurse is caring for a patient with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) wound infection. Which precaution level is required?

Accepted Answer

Contact precautions

Answer

MRSA is transmitted by direct or indirect contact with the patient or their environment, requiring contact precautions.

Question 5

What is the recommended contact time (dwell time) for most alcohol-based hand rubs to be effective?

Accepted Answer

10–15 seconds until hands are dry

Answer

ABHR should be rubbed over all hand surfaces for approximately 20–30 seconds until hands are completely dry to achieve effective microbial reduction.

(NMC) Nursing Midwifery Council Practice Test