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| A biological, physical, or chemical agent capable of causing disease. Biological agents may be bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, helminthes, or prions |
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| Pathogen or infectious agent: |
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| The means by which an infectious agent enters the susceptible host |
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| T/F portal of exit means where an infectious agent leaves the host |
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| false, where it leaves the reservoir. |
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| Standard Precautions, is a group of prevention and control measures that state that all blood, bodily fluid, excretion and secretions can contain transmissible infectious agents except which type of secretion? |
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| non-intact skin, mucus membranes and sweat( have alpha defensins!, which are antimicrobial, immnuo triva) |
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| A person or animal not possessing sufficient resistance to a particular infectious agent to prevent contracting infection or disease when exposed to the agent. |
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| Any mechanism by which a pathogen is spread by a source or reservoir to a person. |
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| Re-using needles is an example of what? |
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| Your grandma, has a health care worker come to her home every week to give her a bath. After her last visit your grandma gets sick with the flu, you learn that the health care worker had just clinically recovered from the flu. What does your grandma have? |
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| Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs): |
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| Sharps disposal containers are examples of what? |
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| T/F, safe injection practices only serve to protect the patient and the person given the injection |
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| False, they also serve to protect the community by ensuring the waste does not provide a threat. |
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| Right/wrong When using a single-use vial, you should never use the same vial, but you may re-use the syringe as long as you use it for the same patient |
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| Wrong! you must change the vial, the syringe and the needle! |
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| What is the difference between a single does and multi dose vial and which patients use it? Can you still use the same syringe and needle? |
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| Multi-dose medication vial has multiple doses for a medication and is used by diabetic patients and for vaccinations! Never re-use a syringe and needle. Even if its for the same pt. |
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| T/F Reservoir is a place were an infectious organism survives and can cause disease |
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| T/F Reservoir is a place were an infectious organism can survive but can never multiply |
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| T/F if a health care work is a reservoir for a disease, that means that health care work is not affected |
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| False, Reservoir: Place in which an infectious agent can survive but may or may not multiply or cause disease. Healthcare workers may be a reservoir for a number of nosocomial organisms spread in healthcare settings |
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| how many microbs do you need to have an infection? |
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| T/F Engineering controls protect against air-borne pathogens? |
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| the two handed technique( what the hell is that?), prohibits the recapping of needles. This is an example of? |
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| T/F Work practice controls prevent the exposure of air borne pathogens? |
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| Wearing a mask which debriding an infected wound is an example of what? |
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| those yellow suits worn in HIV labs are an example of what? |
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| personal protective equipment |
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| if you have detectable organisms on you shirt, it is ? |
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| T/F autoclaving is an example of cleaning? |
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| False it is an example of sterilization |
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| intravenous catheters and needles must be sterile before contacting tissue. therefore they are |
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| what if the difference between decontamination and disinfection? |
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| decontamination does not necessarily remove all the pathogens but it does prevent them from transmitting infectious particles. Dis-infection is largely chemical in nature and destroys all organisms but not there spores/inanimate objects. |
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| if the FDA clears a germicide as a sterliant, what level disinfectant is it? |
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| if the EPA( U.S environmental protection agency) approves this a turerculocide, it is what level of disinfectant? |
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| what level of disinfection do you need to kill mycobacteria? |
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| why are blood pressure cuffs considered non critcal devices and require low levels of disinfection when they contact skin, like some critical devices? |
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| because they don't penetrate to contact the mucus membranes. |
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| An item that comes in contact with mucous membranes or non intact skin and minimally requires high level disinfection (e.g., oral thermometers, vaginal specula). |
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| a hospital disinfectant is what level of disinfection? |
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| clinically significant disease that starts off as an infection |
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| An illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products that arises through transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or inanimate source to a susceptible host. |
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| As applied to infection control, a set of activities intended to assess, prevent, and control infections and communicable diseases in healthcare workers |
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| Occupational Health Strategies: |
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