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The number one way to prevent the spread of infection in healthcare.
What is hand hygiene?
The final link in the chain of infection that determines whether a person becomes ill.
What is a susceptible host?
According to the CDC, this is the preferred method of hand cleansing in healthcare when hands are not visibly dirty.
A. Soap and water
B. Antiseptic wipes
C. Alcohol-based hand sanitizer
D. Sterile water rinse
What is C. Alcohol-based hand sanitizer?
This term refers to the "sterile technique" used for invasive procedures and operations.
A. Medical asepsis
B. Cleaning
C. Surgical asepsis
D. Disinfection
What is C. Surgical asepsis?
The following about communicable diseases is true
A. include all infectious diseases
B. cannot spread person to person
C. are infectious diseases that do spread person to person
D. Infectious diseases and communicable diseases mean the same thing.
What is C. are infectious diseases that do spread person to person?
The following best represents direct contact transmission:
A. Touching a contaminated doorknob
B. Breathing in measles particles
C. Shaking hands with someone who has MRSA
D. Eating food with Hepatitis A
What is C. Shaking hands with someone who has MRSA
The step in the chain of infection referring to the place where the pathogen lives and grows.
What is reservoir?
A patient develops pneumonia two days after being admitted to the hospital. This infection is classified as
A. Opportunistic
B. Endogenous
C. Nosocomial
D. Communicable
What is C. Nosocomial?
The following is an example of medical asepsis
A. Maintaining a sterile field during surgery
B. Handwashing before and after patient care
C. Using only sterile items during invasive procedures
D. Using an autoclave to sterilize surgical equipment
What is B. Handwashing before and after patient care?
The smallest type of microorganism
What is a virus?
This patient is the MOST at risk for developing an opportunistic infection.
A. A healthy teenager
B. A pregnant woman
C. A patient with AIDS
D. An adult with high blood pressure
What is C. A patient with AIDS
The following option(s) breaks the chain of infection at the "mode of transmission" stage.
A. Handwashing
B. Wearing Gloves
C. Covering a cough
D. All of the above
What is D. All of the above
This survives by taking nutrients from a host
A. fungi
B. parasite
C. virus
D. bacteria
What is B. Parasite?
The only level of asepsis that kills all microorganisms, including spores
What is sterilization?
The following infection is spread by droplet transmission.
A. Tuberculosis
B. COVID-19
C. Rabies
D. Lyme disease
What is B. COVID-19?
The following is a disease caused by fungi
A. Cholera
B. Athlete's foot
C. Malaria
D. COVID-19
What is B. Athlete's foot?
A nurse fails to wash hands between patients, causing the spread of infection. This link in the chain of infection was not broken
A. Mode of transmission
B. Portal of exit
C. Reservoir
D. Portal of entry
What is A. Mode of transmission?
Another name for medical asepsis
What is the clean technique?
The following is an example of an endogenous infection
A. Malaria
B. C. diff
C. Influenza
D. Hepatitis A
What is B. C. Diff?
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by ticks, but it cannot spread person-to-person. This would be classified by
A. Infectious but no communicable
B. Communicable but not infectious
C. Opportunistic
D. Nosocomial
What is A. Infectious but not communicable?
The following is an example of an exogenous infection (pick all that apply)
A. Rabies
B. Bowel Perforation
C. Flu
D. Strep Throat
What is A. Rabies, C. Flu, and D. Strep Throat?
3 examples of portal of exits are
GI tract, respiratory tract, urinary tract, blood and body fluids, skin and mucous membranes, transplacental
A set of practices and procedures that prevent or stop the spread of infection.
What is infection control?
Pathogens and non-pathogens are two types of
What is microorganisms?
The four types of pathogens are
What is fungi, bacteria, parasites, and viruses?