Infection
This occurs when harmful microorganisms, called pathogens, invade the body and multiply.
What is an infection?
A pathologic organism that causes disease
What is the causative agent?
Equipment that helps protect nursing assistants from contact with with potentially infectius material.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
An infection aquired in the hospital most commonly spread by the hands of healthcare-workers.
What is a Hospital Aquired Infection (HAI)?
The condition of an object that has not been contaminated with pathogens.
What is clean?
A set of methods practiced in healthcare facilities to prevent and control the spread of disease.
What is infection prevention?
A place where the pathogen lives and multiplies.
What is a reservoir?
A government agency that issues guidelines to protect and improve the health of individuals and communities.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Washing hands with either plain or antispetic soap and water or using alcohol-based hand rubs.
What is hand hygeine?
The condition of an object that has been contaminated with pathogens.
What is dirty?
A living thing that is so small that it can only be seen under a microscope.
What is a microorganism?
Any body opening on an infected person that allows pathogens to leave.
What is the portal of exit.
A federal government agency that makes rules to protect workers from hazards on the job.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
An agent that destroys, resists, or prevents the development of pathogens.
What is an antimicrobial agent?
Equipment that is discarded after one use.
What is disposable?
A type of infection that is limited to a specific location in the body.
What is a localized infection?
It describes how the pathogen travels.
What is the mode of transmission?
Ways to stop the spread of infection by treating blood, body fluids, nonintact skin, and mucus membranes as if they were infected.
What are standard precautions?
The area of the hands where most pathogens are found.
What are fingernails?
A cleaning measure that destroys all microorganisms, including pathogens.
What is sterilization?
It is a type of infection that affects the entire body.
What is a systemic infection?
Any body opening on an uninfected person that allows pathogens to enter.
What is the portal of entry?
The act of putting on and removing equipment.
What is donning and doffing?
Two critical elements of hand washing.
What are washing the hands for 20 seconds and keeping the fingertips down?
A process that reduces the pathogen count to a level that is considered not infectious.
What is disinfection?