Infection Control
Direct contact with blood or body fluids. Indirect contact with a contaminated instrument or surface. Inhalation of airborne microorganisms or respiratory droplets
What are the modes of transmission?
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
What are bloodborne pathogens?
Grasp the outer edge of the glove near the wrist area, fold it over and peel it away from the hand turning it inside out as you remove it
What is the proper way to remove a glove?
A document that identifies the hazards of a chemical and explains how you can protect yourself from those hazards
What is a Safety Data Sheet?
Standing and moving one's body so as to prevent injury, avoid fatigue, and make the best use of strength
What are body mechanics?
Washing hands, wearing PPE, safe injection practices, safe handling of potentially contaminated equipment or surfaces in the patient environment, and respiratory hygiene/cough etiquette
What are standard precautions?
Sexual contact, injection, and mucous membrane exposure
What are routes of entry/modes of transmission?
The ties or elastic bands on a mask, the straps or arms on eyewear, the inside of gloves, and the inside of a gown
What are the "clean" parts of PPE?
Inhalation, ingestion, absorption, and injection
What are the routes of entry for chemicals?
Back injury
What is the most common type of injury for healthcare workers?
The organization that works to protect America from health, safety and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S. by conducting critical science, providing health information that protects our nation against health threats, and responding when such threats arise
What is the CDC?
A written plan to eliminate or minimize occupational exposures
What is an Exposure Control Plan?
Order: gloves, mask/respirator, face shield/goggles, gloves
What is the correct order for donning PPE?
The law that gives you the legal right to know about all the hazardous chemicals you may be exposed to at work
What is the Right-to-Know law?
Keeping forearms is parallel to the floor, elbows by your sides at a 90° angle, wrists straight, thighs parallel to the ground, and feet touching the ground with your ankles at a 90° angle to the floor
What is sitting with an ergonomically-correct posture?
Starts with a pathogen and ends with an infectious agent and ends with a susceptible host
What is the chain of infection?
Must be provided to healthcare employees that will be in contact with blood or other bodily fluids
What is a Hepatitis B Vaccine?
The type of gloves that are used for invasive procedures
What are sterile gloves?
Name, address, and telephone number, product identifier, signal words, hazard statements, precautionary statements, and pictograms
What are the required components of a warning label?
Sliding boards, lateral transfer devices, gait belts, and roller sheets
What are types of patient lift equipment?
C. diff., MRSA, and bacteremia (bloodstream infections)
What are the common hospital-acquired infections?
Needle-free IV systems, sheathed, blunting, or retractable needles, blood transfer adapters, non-breakable plastic vacuum and capillary tubes, and sharps disposal containers
What are sharps devices that protect against sharps injuries?
Type of precaution level that requires a respirator
What is airborne precaution?
The pictogram that represents a hazard from gases under pressure
What is the gas cylinder pictogram?
35 pound limit
What is the recommended weight limit for patient lifting tasks?