Infection and the Chain
This is a microorganism capable of causing disease.
What is a pathogen?
These precautions are used with every patient.
What are Standard Precautions?
What is theproper amount of time to scrub hands during the hand washing process.
What is 20 seconds.
Tuberculosis is an example of a disease requiring this type of precaution.
What are Airborne Precautions?
This federal agency sets workplace safety rules.
What is OSHA?
Pain, redness, swelling, and heat in one area suggest this type of infection.
What is a localized infection?
Used needles belong in this type of container.
What is a sharps container?
This is the first step when putting on a full set of PPE.
What is hand hygiene.
Influenza is an example of a disease spread this way.
What are droplets?
This virus attacks the immune system and can eventually lead to AIDS.
What is HIV?
Fever, chills, body aches, and weakness suggest this type of infection.
What is a systemic infection?
Blood, body fluids, nonintact skin, and these body linings are treated as potentially infectious.
What are mucous membranes?
Name the order for putting on a full set of PPE after hand hygiene.
What is gown, mask or respirator, goggles or face shield, then gloves?
C. diff and conjunctivitis are examples associated with this type of precaution.
What are Contact Precautions?
This vaccine must be offered to healthcare workers with occupational exposure risk.
What is the hepatitis B vaccine?
This link in the chain of infection describes how a pathogen travels from one place or person to another.
What is the mode of transmission?
This unsafe action with a used needle should never be attempted.
What is recapping the needle?
After removing and discarding all PPE, always complete this final step.
What is Hand Hygiene?
These precautions are added to Standard Precautions for certain infectious diseases.
What are Transmission-Based Precautions?
Unlike hepatitis B, hepatitis A commonly spreads by this route.
What is the fecal–oral route?
This process destroys all microorganisms, including spores.
What is sterilization?
What is sterilization?A patient acquires an infection while receiving medical care. This is its abbreviation.
What is a Hospital Acquired Infection.
A medical assistant’s gloves tear while collecting a specimen. What should the assistant do before continuing?
What is remove the torn gloves, perform hand hygiene, and put on a new pair of gloves?
A patient with a suspected airborne infection may be placed in this specially ventilated room.
What is an airborne infection isolation room?
This type of hepatitis can only occur in someone who also has hepatitis B.
What is hepatitis D?