PPE
What does PPE stand for?
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
What type of precautions are used for tuberculosis (TB)?
What are airborne precautions?
What is an infectious agent?
What is a pathogen that causes disease?
What is the difference between a pathogen and a non-pathogen?
What is pathogens cause disease, while non-pathogens do not typically cause disease and can even be beneficial?
What are antibiotics used to treat?
What are bacterial infections?
List the correct order to put on PPE.
What is gown, mask, goggles/face shield, gloves?
A patient with C.Diff requires which type of precaution?
What are contact precautions?
What is a reservoir in the chain of infection?
What is the place where a pathogen lives and multiplies?
Which type of pathogen is responsible for causing the flu?
What is a virus?
(Will also accept "What is influenza?)
What are antifungal medications used to treat?
What are fungal infections?
What is the correct order to remove PPE?
What is gloves, goggles/face shield, gown, mask?
What PPE is required for airborne precautions?
What is an N-95 mask?
Name two portals of exit.
What are respiratory tract (coughing/sneezing), gastrointestinal tract (vomit/stool), skin, or blood?
Name two ways to reduce a person’s susceptibility to infection.
What are proper nutrition, regular exercise, vaccination, hand hygiene, and managing chronic conditions?
True or False: Antifungal medications can treat certain bacterial infections.
What is false.
Describe the difference between contact and airborne precautions.
What is contact precautions prevent spread through direct/indirect contact and airborne precautions protect against tiny particles that remain in the air?
Name the three main modes of transmission.
What are contact, droplet, and airborne transmission?
What is the most effective way to break the chain of infection?
What is proper hand hygiene?
True or False: Antibiotics can cure infections like the flu or the common cold.
What is false?
What’s the difference between surgical masks and N95 respirators?
What is surgical masks protect against large droplets, while N95 respirators filter out airborne particles
What is because you cannot identify infections just by looking, preventing exposure to unknown pathogens?
How can PPE help protect portals of entry?
What is by creating a barrier to prevent pathogens from reaching the skin, mouth, eyes, or respiratory tract?
What is antibiotic resistance?
What is when bacteria change over time and become resistant to the drugs designed to kill them?
Name a viral infection that can be treated with antiviral medications.
What is influenza, herpes, HIV, or hepatitis C?