Describe a safer exit flow from a contact-precautions room.
What changes make the contact-precautions exit safer? Before: the contaminated boundary is drifting into the hallway. After: PPE is contained before clean hallway contact. Gloves and gown come off before hallway contact because their outside surfaces are treated as contaminated. The door handle is touched only after hand hygiene, preventing a room-to-hallway pathway. The clean cart stays outside the room flow and is not handled with contaminated gloves. The worker exits by contamination logic, not by whether the PPE looks dirty. Clean-looking PPE is still the dirty side after patient-zone work. contact-precautions exit flow Practiced containing PPE at the room…
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