Micro Moments
The bacterial reproductive process that takes place when a mother cell divides into two daughter cells
Binary Fission
Thread-like tails that help bacteria move
Flagella
What color should biohazard labels/signs be?
Red/Orange
Herpes simplex is a ____________ disease
Viral
The functional center of a cell that governs activity and heredity
Nucleus
The main theory of ____________ is that: patients may pose a risk of infection whether they have been diagnosed with an infectious disease or not
Standard Precautions
The ___________ area of the sterile processing department should have 10 air exchanges per hour
Decontamination
The state of being soiled or infected by contact with infectious organisms or other material
Contamination
Floors in the sterile processing department should be _______ daily
Wet-mopped
Inanimate objects that can transmit bacteria are called:
Fomites
Which of these traffic control/dress code requirements applies to the operating room?
Restricted
Following standard precautions protocols is required by:
OSHA
The absence of microorganisms that cause disease is called:
Asepsis
Tetanus and botulism do not require free oxygen to grow, so they are classified as _______________ bacteria
Anaerobic
Sunlight is lethal to the __________ stage of pathogens
Vegetative
____ are often pathogenic to humans because they grow best at body temperature
Mesophiles
The 3 main shape classifications of bacteria
Cocci, Bacillus, and Spirillum
Know what is dirty, know what is clean, know what is sterile, keep the three conditions separate, and remedy contamination immediately are the:
Principles of Asepsis
The two most common processes designed to classify bacteria by color changes
Gram-Stain and Zhiel-Neelson
Departmental dress codes apply to _______ entering the sterile processing department
Everyone