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A voluntary agreement that a patient gives to allow a medically trained person the permission to touch, examine, and perform a treatment.
Consent
A microorganism capable of causing disease
Pathogen
A group of colors that share certain characteristics, such as warm or coolness, allowing them to blend well together.
Color family
A US civil rights act for bidding discrimination against people, because of a physical or mental disability
Americans with disabilities act (ADA)
Infections acquired by a patient in a healthcare facility
Healthcare associated infections
In civil law, a breach of some obligation that causes harm or injury to someone.
Tort
A reservoir host who is unaware of the presence of a pathogen, and so spreads the disease while exhibiting no symptoms of infection
Carrier
A shortened version of the safety data sheet permanently affixed to a hazardous substance container
Hazard label
The science of workplace, tools and equipment designed to reduce worker discomfort, strain, and fatigue to prevent work-related injuries
Ergonomics
A combination of universal precautions and body substance, isolation guidelines used in hospitals for the care of all patients
Standard precaution
A contact clearly stated, in written or spoken words
Expressed contract
A living organism, such as an insect that carried microorganisms from an infected person to another person
Vector
A form that is required for all hazardous chemicals or other substances used in the laboratory, and that contains information about the products name, ingredients, chemical characteristics, physical and health hazards, guidelines for a safe handling, and procedures to be followed in the event of exposure.
Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
An individual who has little or no immunity to infection by a particular organism
Susceptible host
Involves crimes against persons. A person can sue, another person, business, or the government. Judgment often required a payment of money.
Civil law
A document naming the person who will make decisions regarding medical care on behalf of another person, if that person becomes unable to do so
Durable Power of Attorney
An inanimate object, such as clothing, body, fluids, water, or food that may be contaminated with infections, organisms and transmit disease
Formite
Waste that can be dangerous to those who handle it, or to the environment, includes human waste, human tissue, and body fluids, as well as potentially hazardous waste, such as used needles, scalpels, and dressings, and cultures of human cells.
Infectionous waste
The condition in which pathogens are absent or controlled
Asepsis
Involves crimes against against the state. When a state of federal law is violated, the government brings criminal charges against the alleged offender.
Criminal law
A contract that is created by the acceptance or conduct of the parties, rather than the written word
Implied contract
An infection in which an abnormality or a malfunction in routine body processes causes normally beneficial or harmless microorganisms to become pathogenic
Endogenous infection
A system for standardizing, the classification and labeling of chemicals, developed by the United Nations as a guide for regulatory systems around the world. In the United States, OSHA’s hazard, communication standard is now aligned with the GHS.
Global harmonized, system of classification and labeling of chemicals (GHS)
And OSHA clause that requires an employer to maintain a workplace free from hazards that are recognized as likely to cause death or serious injury
General duty clause
A medical professionals failure to perform an essential action or performance of an improper action, that directly results in the harm of a patient.
Negligence