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| All practices intended to confine a specific microorganism to a specific area, limiting their growth and transmission. Procedures used to protect the client and their environment from bacterial growth etc. |
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| Who told doctors to wash their hands? |
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| Used carbolic acid in the operating rooms therefor decreasing infections |
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| Disease causing infectious agent that causes disease in healthy people. |
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| What is an opportunistic pathogen? |
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| Causes disease in susceptible person. |
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| The pathogens ability to cause disease. |
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| What is a communicable disease? |
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| What are examples of non-pathogenic bacteria? |
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| The resident flora in your body. Can cause disease is transmitted to other areas, however. |
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| What is local vs. systemic infection? |
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Local - specific area
Systemic - microorganisms spread and damage other body areas. |
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| When microbes enter the blood stream |
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| When bacteremia spreads through all the body systems. |
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| What is the difference between an acute and chronic infection? |
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The time frame.
Acute has fast onset and is generally shorter.
Chronic has a slow onset and lasts longer than acute. |
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| What is a nosocomial infection? |
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| Occur as a result of health care delivery. |
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| What are the 2 sources for disease? |
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| Endogenous source and exogenous source. |
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| Infection directly caused by any diagnostic or therapeutic source. |
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| What are 3 drug resistant pathogens? |
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| What is the chain of infection? |
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Agent -> Reservoir -> Portal of Exit -> Mode of Transmission -> Portal of Entry -> Host
CIRCULAR.
HOST CONNECTS BACK TO AGENT |
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| What is another word for medical asepsis? |
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| Clean technique - practices that inhibit pathogenic microorganisms. |
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| What are clean techniques? |
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Handwashing
Standard precautions
Transmission based precautions
PPE |
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| What are transmission based precautions? |
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| Precautions based on modes of transmission - airborne, droplet, contact. |
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| What are some examples of PPE? |
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| Prevent or inhibit the growth of pathogenic organisms but are not effective against spores or viruses. Can be used on the skin. Betadine or alcohol. |
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| What is disinfection? How do you disinfect? Can you use on skin? |
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| Destruction of pathogens other than spores. Boiling water/chemicals like bleach or zephirin. No cannot use on skin, only on objects. |
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| What is another word for surgical asepsis? Where and when is it used? |
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| Sterile technique. Destroy all microorganisms and their sports. Used in specialized areas and skills like care of surgical wounds, catheter insertion, invasive procedures, surgery. |
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| What is sterilization? What are some techniques? |
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| Destruction of pathogens and non pathogens including spores and viruses. Steam under pressure, gas, radiation, chemicals, autoclave.sdfsdfadsf |
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| What is the process of sterile technique? |
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| Procedures that keep an object or area free from living organisms. Must remain away from and in front of the body and above the waist. |
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| What should you never do during sterile technique? |
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1.) Reach over steril field, turn your back to it, get it wet.
Two inches around the border is considered contaminated. |
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| When sterile gloving, only touch what? |
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| The outside of the package with bare hands - the inside with the gloves is considered sterile. |
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| What can be touched by the bare hand when gloving? |
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| How do you sterile glove? |
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1.) Grasp the first glove at the top edge of the folded down cuff and slip in hand
2.) Slip gloved fingers into cuff of second glove and slip in hand without contaminating. |
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| What are the 7 categories of isolation precautions? |
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1. Strict Isolation
2. Contact Isolation
3. Respiratory Isolation
4. TB
5. Enteric
6. Drainage/Secretion
7. Body/Body Fluid |
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Disease specific isolation - according to specific disease conditions
Universal precautions - blood and body fluids |
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| What does a face mask reduce the risk of? |
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| Transmission by droplet, airborne, or splatters. |
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| What are other isolation precautions taken? |
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Client placement - special rooms
Care of soiled equip.
Bagging - color coded system
Linen - least handling of soiled linen
Lab specimens - leak proof container
Needs and sharps - avoid recapping |
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