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Precautions & the Right PPE

Standard Precautions protect you from every patient; when a pathogen spreads a particular way, you add transmission-based precautions on top. Pick a precaution below, then tap the gear to suit up the nurse — the panel tells you if you're protected.

Standard Precautions

The door sign tells you which precaution is in effect
Standard Precautionsthe baseline for every patient
✋ Hand hygiene — before and after every patient contact. This is the core of Standard Precautions and is never optional.
Don your PPE — tap to put on / take off