Practicing good hand hygiene, carrying soiled items away from you and keeping them off the floor, avoiding having patients cough, sneeze or breath on each other, moving equipment away form the body when cleaning articles, avoiding raising dust, and cleaning least-soiled areas first, disposing of soiled or used items in appropriate containers, pouring discarded liquids directly into the drain, sterilizing items suspected of containing pathogens, using personal grooming habits that prevent the spread of microorganisms, following guidelines for infection control or barrier technique, are all part of the basic principles of what?
Only a sterile object can touch another sterile object, open sterile packages so that first edge of the wrapper is directed away from the worker, avoid spilling solution on a sterile setup, hold sterile objects above waist level, avoid talking, coughing or reach over sterile field, never turn your back on a sterile field, sterilize all items brought in contact with broken skin or sterile body cavities, use dry, sterile forceps when necessary, consider outer 1 inch of sterile field to be contaminated, when in doubt consider all suspect items contaminated, are basic principles of what kind of asepsis?
Follow hand hygiene techniques, wear clean, nonsterile gloves when touching body fluids, excretions, secretions, contaminated items, mucous membranes and nonintact skin, wear PPE during care activities likely to generate splashes or sprays of blood, avoid recapping used needles, handle used patient care equipment appropriately, follow respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette, use safe injections practices, wear a face mask if placing a catheter or injecting material into the spinal or epidrual space