Laws Regulating Heath and Safety
Who works to create regulations to prevent work-related injury, illnesses, and deaths
What is OSHA?
The 6 types of pathogens
What are bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa, rickettsiae, and helminths
Define a parasite
What is an organism that lives on or in another organism, feeding off its host to sustain itself?
The main way infection can be broken
What is by breaking the chain of infection?
Define Aseptic techniques
What is to maintain a clean enviornment to prevent healthcare associated infections that occur during the process of caring for patients?
What is the purpose of the Federal Needekstick Safety and Prevention Act?
What is to require healthcare facilities to use needles specifically engineered for safer infection and blood draws?
HIV is caused by what type of pathogen
What is a virus?
Treatment for parasitic infestations
What are antiparasitic medications?
The first step in the chain of infection
What is the reservoir?
Standard precautions that can prevent most transmissions of infection
What is proper handwashing and wearing the appropriate personal protective equipment?
The purpose of the Hazard Communication Standards
What is promoting awareness about the safe handling of hazardous substances?
Define Fungi
What is a plant-like parasitic microbe that loves in soil and on plants?
What do parasites leave behind on their host
What are waste products that are toxic and sometimes deadly?
What is a person who is vulnerable to infection?
The goal of transmission-based precautions
What is to discover hoe the identified infection spreads and to anticipate and prevent he transmission of infection before it even begins?
Define the Saftey Data Sheet
What is a label containing condensed information about chemicals that is to be placed om packages containing a hazardous substance?
Define Protozoa
Define Giardia
What is a tiny parasite that causes the diarrheal disease giardiasis?
The way a microorganism leaves the reservoir
What is the portal of exit?
Define Contact Precautions
What is a type of precaution that is used when the infection can be spread by direct or indirect contact with the patient or their environment?
Define the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act
What are regulations on how lab test results are interpreted and reported?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is an example of what type of pathogen
What is becteria?
Locations of Giardia
What are surfaces, on soil, food, or water that have been contaminated with feces from infected people or animals?
Define the mode of transmission
What is the way microorganisms are transmitted from one place to another?
When are airborne precautions needed
What is a precaution used for infections that can spread over a great distance?