Occupational Health
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION.
What is OSHA?
Chemical disinfectants have a required amount of time to achieve this.
What is dwell or kill time?
These are used for select patients with specific diseases or pathogens.
What are Transmission-based Precautions?
Precautions used for patients who are infected or thought to be infected with pathogens that can be spread by direct or indirect contact.
What is Contact Precautions?
The single most effective way to prevent the spread of germs.
What is Hand Hygiene?
Waste - that is contaminated with infected body fluids should be disposed here.
What is a biohazard container?
The only process indicator that directly monitors the lethality of a given sterilization process.
What is a “biological indicator”?
Guidelines that outline the minimum set of interventions that are required for preventing the transmission of microorganisms.
What is Standard Precautions?
Precautions used for patients who are infected with pathogens that are expelled during coughing, sneezing, talking, laughing.
What are droplet precautions?
Three times healthcare providers should always wash their hands.
What is before every patient contact, after every patient contact and after using the restroom?
The proper disposal of needles is safely kept in this.
What is a Sharps Container?
Where the reprocessing of contaminated equipment or instruments begins by the end user by removing gross soil and debris.
What is "point of use cleaning"?
Requires a negative air room with at least 6-12 air exchanges per hour that exhausts directly to outside.
What is Airborne Precautions?
Precautions used for patients who are known or thought to be infected with pathogens that are transmitted through the air.
What is airborne precautions?
Washing hands with soap and water instead of using alcohol based hand sanitizer.
What is when hands are visibly soiled?
These human parasites feed on blood usually at night.
What are bed bugs?
This is the process used for reprocessing endoscopes and ultra sound probes.
What is High Level Disinfection?
Used to limit spread of bacterial meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis.
What is Droplet Precautions?
If a patient is in airborne precautions, this type of specialty mask must be worn.
What is an N95 or respirator mask?
The timeframe that is acceptable for washing hands.
What is 20 seconds?
The first 3 steps after a blood borne pathogen (BBP) exposure (i.e. needlestick) occurs.
What is Wash/disinfect the effected area, notify supervisor and complete red binder?
Originally known as “flash sterilization”, this process is considered riskier than sterilization in the Sterile Processing Dept.
What is Immediate Use Steam Sterilization? (IUSS)
Used for allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.
What is Protective Environment Precautions?
Patients requiring Airborne Precautions must be kept in this special treatment room.
What is a negative pressure room, (AIIR) Airborne infection isolation room?
This organism requires the use of soap and water on hands.
What is C. Diff?