Why aren't pneumonia patients placed on isolation precautions in the hospital? My med-surg books are telling me it's spread through contact and respiratory droplets, and even some of the NCLEX pneumonics say it's contact or resp iso. But we NEVER put pts w/ pneumonia on iso in the hospital so I'm just a little confused.
A. In the KAPLAN class, we learned that pneumonia is categorized under Droplet precautions. Yet in this question it must be OK to put a pneumonia patient with another patient. Is this allowed for all the diseases listed under Droplet precautions?
pneumonia droplet precautions, B. We also learned that skin infections are categorized under Contact precautions which requires a private room. Therefore why is it OK to put the ... do you have the saunder's comprehensive review you will see the accurate list of diseases under airborne, droplet to contact precautions. but i will just right this down for you..
pneumonia droplet precautions, hope this helps.. for droplet precaution: sepsis scarlet fever streptococcal pharyngitis parvovirus b19 pertussis pneumonia influenza, including h1n1 diptheria ... Practicing NCLEX-RN: How come Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia only requires standard precaution? I thought all pneumonia requires droplet precautions? (remember SPIDERMAN mnemonics for droplet precautions?) I did a search on Google on the mode of transmission of Pneumocystic Jiroveci but couldn't locate a satisfactory answer and a trustworthy ... I see on various websites/textbooks that pneumonia is listed as "droplet precautions." However--I never see this done in the real world.
Why is that? (Ps- I also looked up an old thread on here relating to the topic, and it was stated by various users that they too never saw isolation for these pts done in the real world. It doesn't live in the droplets, so RSV patients are only on contact precautions. But in general, all patients who present with pneumonia-like symptoms who are coughing and/or sneezing will be on droplet precautions until their illness can be determined.
