Key Terms
Assessment of Inflammation
Categories of Infection
Assessment of infection
Infection Prevention
100
An immunologic defense against tissue injury, infection, or allergy.
What is inflammation
100
What Kind of defense mechanism is inflammation?
What is immune defense
100
Antibiotic drugs usually kill bacteria, but they aren't effective against?
What is viruses
100
This is one of the classic signs of infection
What is elevated temperature
100
One should do this before and after provide care to a client.
What is effective hand hygiene.
200
Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be unapparent or the result of local cellular injury caused by competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication, or antigen-antibody response.
What is Infection
200
What are the signs and symptoms present during the inflammatory process?
What is redness, heat, pain, and edema or swelling
200
Exposure to a wet environment, such as a swimming pool, may increase the risk of which type of infection?
What is fungal infection
200
The main laboratory test that is used to determine if there is an infection present.
What is a white blood cell count? (WBC count with differential)
200
This tier applies to all body fluids (except sweat), nonintact skin, and mucous membranes. A nurse should implement for all clients
What is standard precautions.
300
Microorganisms that normally reside at a given site and under normal circumstances do not cause disease.
What is normal flora
300
What is the manifestation or process of inflammation caused by increased capillary permeability?
What is swelling
300
This type of infection releases endotoxins or exotoxins, which damage the cells of the host and initiate an inflammatory response
What is bacterial invasion
300
Signs of local infection are evidenced by
What are pain, redness, swelling, and warmth?
300
These are a group of actions that include hand hygiene and the use of barrier precautions, which intend to reduce the transmission of infectious organisms.
What is Isolation guidelines.
400
the degree of pathogenicity of a microorganism as indicated by case fatality rates and/or its ability to invade the tissues of the host; the competence of any infectious agent to produce pathologic
What is virulence
400
When a nurses assesses an inflamed area that is warm to touch and has redness, he or she know that this response is caused by what?
What is vasodilation
400
An infection acquired in a health-care facility
What is nosocomial Infection
400
This lab test specifically test for the presence of microorganism growth in the urine.
What are urine cultures? (Or urinalysis, UA)
400
This protects visitors and caregivers when they are within 3 ft of the client against direct client and environmental contact infections (respiratory syncytial virus, shigella, enteric diseases caused by micro-organisms, wound infections, herpes simplex, impetigo, scabies, multidrug-resistant organisms). This requires - A private room or a room with other clients with the same infection. - Gloves and gowns worn by the caregivers and visitors - Disposal of infectious dressing material into a single, nonporous bag without touching the outside of the bag
What is contact precautions
500
This refers to a bacterial infection in the bloodstream or body tissues. This is a very broad term covering the presence of many types of microscopic disease-causing organisms.
What is sepsis
500
If a patient has inflammation and is complaining of malaise, nausea, anorexia. The nurse explains to the patient that these manifestations are related to what type response secondary to inflammation?
What is systematic
500
Populations at risk for infections are the….. (4 answers)
What is very young, poor, uninsured, residents of geographic areas where an infection is common
500
A blood test used to measure inflammatory change or bacterial infection.
What is C-reactive protein (CRP)?
500
This is a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to all antibiotics, except vancomycin.
What is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
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