Precautions
What does HAIs stand for?
What is healthcare-associated infections?
What type of drainage from a wound do you typically see in the early healing process?
What is serous?
What does PPE stand for?
What is personal protective equipment?
What are the characteristic of the inflammatory response?
What is redness and swelling?
What is contact transmission?
What is when infectious agents come into contact with a host?
What is frostbite?
Frostbite is a condition in which extreme cold temperatures cause freezing and damage to body tissues
How long should you was your hands for?
What is a minimum of 20 secs?
What is an example of a portal of exit?
What is through a sneeze, a cough, blood, or feces?
What increases the risk for infection?
What is people that are very old or very young, people in poor health,, people with autoimmune disorders?
Name three penetrating wounds
What is gunshot wounds, stab wounds, decubitus ulcers, simple cuts, and surgical wounds
While applying a gown, should you tie the neck or the waist first?
What is the neck tie first?
Thin, watery, slightly pink drainage from a wound, would be categorized as?
What is serosanguinous?
What is the body's first line of defense?
What is skin, nasal passages, eyes, eyelashes, mouth, GI tract?
Name three nonpenetrating wounds
What is abrasions, decubitus ulcers, lacerations, contusions and concussions
What PPE gear should be applied before entering a contact room?
What is a gown and gloves?
What is standard precautions?
What is infection prevention and control practices to prevent the spread of disease?
Examples
Hand Hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Respiratory hygiene, Contaminated equipment or surfaces
How is Pneumonia transmitted?
What is droplets?
What is a contusion?
What is a swollen bruise that are caused by broken blood vessels?
What is communicable diseases that can be transmitted from one person, object, or animal to another
Noncommunicable disease: Diseases that are not contagious and cannot be transmitted by contact?
What is a systemic infection and give an example?
What is a widespread and travels throughout the body via the bloodstream?
Example the flu