PPE
Lab coats help protect
What is skin?
An infection occurs when
Microbe enters the body and multiplies
Most common way to transmit an infection
What is contact transmission?
Number of links in the chain of infection
What is 6?
Must be used on all patients
What is standard precautions?
N-95 respirators are used during which precaution
What is airborne?
The rapid, widespread growth of a disease within a large population over a short period
What is an epidemic?
Transmission of an infectious agent through contaminated food, water, or drugs
What is vehicle transmission?
Infectious agent is the
What is infection
This room and everything in it must be cleaned daily.
What is contact precaution/isolation?
What is gloves, goggles, gown, mask?
Traditional term applied to patient infections that were acquired in a hospital
What is Nosocomial Infection?
Transfer of infection carried by insect, arthropod, or animal
What is vector transmission?
The last link in the chain of infection
What is susceptible host?
This agency sets the guidelines in which all healthcare facilities must adhere to for infection prevention.
What is CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)?
These gloves are used to handle body fluids
What is nonsterile or clean?
Microbe that lives on skin naturally, but it can enter skin and cause infection.
What is staph?
Transfer of a pathogen to the mucous membranes (mouth, nose, or eyes) through someone with the disease coughing, sneezing, or talking
What is droplet transmission?
What is the number 1 way to break the chain infection?
What is hand hygiene?
Patient with suppressed immune system is protected in this type of isolation?
What is reverse isolation?
Order of donning PPE
What is gown, mask, goggles, gloves?
Bacteria that is resistant to almost all treatments
What is Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria?
Remain in the air until inhaled by a susceptible host who may have never been near the infected individual
What is airborne transmission/droplets?
When breaking the chain of infection you are
What is stopping the infection at the source?
This type of precaution is used for anyone with a catheter or wound?
What is enhanced barrier precaution?