Vocabulary
Sheets that provide information about chemical, hazard, cleanup procedures
What are Safety Data Sheets?
Running, wet floors, bending at your knees when lifting heavy objects.
What are Physical Hazards?
What are the means of transmission of infectious agents?
The most important and effective means of preventing the spread of infection and antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
What is hand hygiene?
The separation of an infection source from susceptible hosts?
What is isolation?
A rapid, severe immune reaction that can be life threatening.
This requires all employees to switch to safety needle devices to minimize the risk of accidental sticks and solicited employee input in choosing safer devices.
What is the Needle Stick Safety and Prevention Act of 2001?
The most frequent and important transmission route for health care-associated infections.
What is contact transmission?
OSHA requires that all facilities have one of these plans in place that describes all the elements for preventing the spread of infection?
What is an Exposure Control Plan?
This targets patients known or suspected of being infected with a highly transmissible pathogen.
What is Tier 2 of Isolation Precautions?
Preservatives and reagents
What are Chemical Hazards?
Particles that are generated from the source by coughing, sneezing or talking.
What is Droplet Transmission?
This consists of barriers and respirators, gloves, goggles, gowns and masks.
What is PPE?
Measles, Varicella and TB are examples when this type of precaution would need to be taken.
What is Airborne Precautions?
Needles and lancets, the most common hazard you will encounter as a phlebotomist.
What are sharps?
Dangerous high voltage equipment
What are Electrical Hazards?
This form of transmission includes either airborne droplet nuclei or dust particles that contain the infectious microorganism.
What is Airborne Transmission?
The length of time required to properly wash your hands?
What is 15 seconds?
Used when patients are known to have or suspected of having diseases transmitted by direct or indirect contact.
What is Contact Precautions?
Plan that describes all safety procedures, special precautions and emergency procedures when working with chemicals.
What is a Chemical Hygiene Plan?
Open flames, oxygen and chemicals
What are Fire or Explosive Hazards?
Some infectious agents are carried by agents such as arthropods that are not harmed by their presence.
What is Vector Transmission?
These masks fit tightly and have filters which effectively remove 95% of airborne particles if worn correctly?
What is an N95 respirator/mask?
This type of precaution includes performing hand hygiene and wearing a mask when within 3 ft of a patient.
What are Droplet Precautions?