ENGINEERING AND WORK PRACTICE CONTROLS
Indicate whether the item or practice is an engineering control or a work practice control.
Handwashing
work practice control
What means of transmission
Droplet
When coming into contact with patients under airborne precautions, it is necessary to wear
a mask and gloves
Equipment that is used to protect the health care associate from exposure to blood and body fluids.
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
What is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection
Hand washing
Indicate whether the item or practice is an engineering control or a work practice control.
Sharps Containers
Engineering Control
What means of transmission
Indirect Contact
Disinfection of countertops is best done using
10 percent bleach solution.
a type of Isolation based on the category (strict, respiratory, etc.) of isolation.
category-specific isolation
What work practice control must be available at no charge to the phlebotomist and is effective for 15 or more years in protecting the phlebotomist.
HBV Vaccine
All used needles should be disposed of in a sharp's container and in what manner -------------
intact
What means of transmission
Direct Contact
Standard precautions policy states that if there is a possibility of coming into contact with a patient’s blood or any other body fluid, you must wear
gloves
a type of Isolation based on the type of disease infecting the patient.
Disease-Specific Isolation
what Assumes that all blood and most body fluids are potentially infectious. A principle maintaining that personal protective equipment must be worn for contact with all body fluids whether blood is visible or not.
Standard precautions
Hand washing disrupts which link in the chain of infection
Means of transmission
What means of transmission
Vector
Practices that are incorporated into all health care associates’ work habits to prevent the spread of infection
Work practice controls
a type of Isolation precautions taken for patients diagnosed or suspected of a specific transmissible disease. The precautions are based on whether the disease is transmitted by airborne, droplet, or contact methods.
transmission-based precautions
A pathogen that is spread by blood and body fluids containing blood. Typically, the pathogens are hepatitis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Blood-borne pathogens
The name given to an infection that a patient acquires 48 hours or more after admission to a hospital is
Nosocomial
What Means of Transmission
Droplets transfer on air currents
Airborne
The phlebotomist is considered a potential source of infection to the patient in what type of isolation
Protective (Reverse)
----------are physical and mechanical devices that are available to the health care associate to reduce or eliminate the potential to transfer infectious diseases.
Engineering Controls
A principle to protect health care associates from infections as a result of exposure to body fluids. A term now replaced by standard precautions
Univeral Precautions