How to clean an isolation room

Before you start

• Read the door signage and follow the precautions it shows (contact, droplet or airborne).
• Use the products the site specifies for isolation or outbreak cleaning.
• Use dedicated or disposable equipment where the procedure requires it.

Order of work

1. Clean your hands and put on PPE outside the room.
2. Remove waste and soiled linen first, bagged in the room.
3. Clean from clean to dirty and high to low, finishing with the bathroom and floor.
4. Pay extra attention to high-touch surfaces: bed rails, call bells, handles, switches, taps.
5. Apply disinfectant for the full contact time.

Leaving the room

Remove PPE at the doorway — gloves first, then hand hygiene, then gown, eye protection and mask — and clean your hands again. Clean or dispose of equipment before it's used anywhere else.