Seasonal Influenza
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB)
Herpes zoster (Varicella Zoster Virus) Shingles
Clostridium difficile Infection
Group A Streptococcus (GAS)
100
__________________healthcare personnel should not care for patients with influenza.
What are pregnant healthcare personnel?
100
The type of isolation precautions for suspected of confirmed TB.
What are Airborne precautions?
100
The type of isolation precautions required for disseminated shingles.
What are Contact and Airborne precautions?
100
A color coded dot placed on an upper corner of the Contact Precautions sign to indicate the room must be cleaned/disinfected with bleach wipes and all persons must wash their hands with soap and water before exiting the patient's room.
What is a brown dot?
100
This is another name for the term "flesh-eating bacteria". The bacteria causes a rapidly progressive disease which destroys muscles, fat and skin tissue.
What is nectrotizing faciitis?
200
What is the single best way to prevent influenza?
What is the influenza vaccination?
200
This aerosol generating procedure should always be performed in a negative air pressure room. AFBs are routinely ordred. The patient will remain on Airborne Precautions until the discontinuation criteria for suspected or confirmed TB have been met.
What is a bronchoscopy?
200
The name of the CDC reference (guideline) and page number to determine the type and duration of isolation precautions for herpes zoster (varicella zoster) shingles.
What is appendix A on page 102?
200
The name of the CDC reference (guideline) and page number to determine the type and duration of isolation precautions for Clostridium difficile.
What is Appendix A on page 99?
200
The name of the CDC reference (guideline) and page number to determine the type and duration of isolation precautions for Group A Streptococcus (GAS).
What is Appendix A on page 112?
300
Maintain Droplet Precautions for ______days after illness onset OR until ______hours after the resolution of fever and respiratory symptoms whichever is longer.
What are 7 (days) and 24 (hours)?
300
The follow criteria describes when Airborne Precautions can be ____________________. 1. When infectious TB is considered unlikely and either another diagnosisis made that explains the clinical syndrome; OR 2. the patient has 3 consecutive negative AFB sputum specimens smear results. Each of the 3 sputum specimens should be collected in 8-24 hour intervals, and atleast one specimen should be an early morning specimen because of respiratory secretions pool overnight.
What is discontinued or stopped?
300
The term for a herpes zoster rash that becomes more widespread and affect 3 or more dermatones with appearance of lesions outside the primary or adjacent dermatones, the condition is referred to this type of communicable disease.
What is disseminated herpes zoster?
300
The term for the amount of time the surface must stay wet with disinfectant(bleach).
What is the contact, dwell or dry time?
300
The type of isolation precautions for major skin infections with Group A Streptococcus (GAS).
What are Droplet and Contact Precautions?
400
These are the 4 criteria which require the continuation of Droplet Precautions if the influenza rapid influenza test (influenza A/B Ag SCRN) is "presumptive negative for Influenza A and B".
What are: 1. Patient is symptomatic (influenza symptoms) 2. No other cause of the symptoms have been identified 3. Patient is placed on an influenza antiviral medication (e.g., Tamiflu) 4. NP wash for influenza by PCR is pending or positive.
400
The name of the laboratory test to test for TB. This test involves a smear and culture of the specimen.
What is an Acid Fast Bacillus or AFB?
400
"Evidence of _________________________" means the person is protected from varicella zoster virus and includes the following criteria: 1. Written documentation of vaccination with 2 doses of varicella vaccine OR 2. Laboratory evidence of immunity or laboratory confirmation varicella disease, OR 3. Diagnosis or verification of history of varicella disease by a healthcare provider, OR 4. Diagnosis or verification of a history of herpes zoster by a healthcare provider.
What is immunity?
400
The patient has not had diarrhea or loose stool for _____ days, is continent, not soiling the environment and understands how to perform hand hygiene; OR has 3 negative stool samples by enzyme immunoassay (EIA) testing methodology; OR has ____negative stool sample by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing methodology; OR the physician has determined an alternative diagnosis(loose or diarrhea stools are from another etiology- not from C. difficile).
What is are 3 (days), 1 (PCR stool sample)?
400
The type of isolation precautions required for serious invasive Streptococcal disease (Group A Streptococcus).
What are droplet precautions?
500
These 3 infection prevention actions are required during an "aerosol generating procedure" for a suspected or confirmed patient case.
What is a: 1. Negative Air Pressure Room. 2. N-95 mask for HCP 3. Limitation of the number of HCP in room.
500
The name of the Infection Prevention policy that outlines the number of minutes for removal of TB airborne contaminants from a negative air pressure room before the room is terminally cleaned and put back into use for another patient.
What is the TB exposure Control Plan or TB policy?
500
This word used to describe the period of time that the isolation precautions must be maintained. The isolation precautions must be continued until lesions are dry and crusted.
What is the duration (of isolation precautions)?
500
The testing methodology (reflex test) to confirm a negative enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for Clostridium difficile.
What is the PCR oor polymerase chain reaction test?
500
The time specified in hours (hrs) after initiation of effective therapy (e.g., antimicrobial, surgical) this patient will be on isolation precautions?
What is 24 hours (U24 hrs)?
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