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A document containing comprehensive information about a particular chemical used in a healthcare facility.
What is a material safety data sheet? (MSDS)
One celled microorganisms that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
What is bacteria?
Equipment worn by workers to protect them from serious workplace injuries or illness.
What is personal Protective equipment? (PPE)
Microorganisms that are smaller than bacteria and depends on a living cell to survive and may cause a serious disease.
What is a Virus?
Term for policies that motivate or require healthcare facilities to monitor and evaluate their services based on predetermined criteria for the purpose of improving those services.
What is quality improvement? (QI)
An organism that requires little to no oxygen to survive.
What is an anaerobe?
substances that are designed by OSHA that require healthcare workers to proceed as if they are infectious.
what is potentially infectious materials? (PIM)
Microorganisms that depend on a host to survive and can cause an illness.
what is a protozoa?
An antibiotic -resistant bacterium responsible for a difficult -to-treat infection: sometimes in prevalent in hospitals ,prisons, schools, and nursing homes.
What is Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus? (MRSA)
Parasites that choose fleas,ticks,and mites as their host and can cause severe infections.
What is rickettsiae?