Infection Prevention Issues
Description of outdated medical product where purity is compromised
What is contamination?
These are some routine practices to manage inventory
What are rotating stock and tracking supplies?
When resident has no symptoms of infection, but culture grows a pathogenic organism.
What is a false-positive lab result?
These stickers or tags help to identify which products are the oldest supplies
What are 'Use First' or color-coded stickers/labels?
Measurement of findings
What is the number of expired items?
The most important action to prevent infection
What is handwashing or hand hygiene?
These are initial inventory management actions
What are clean location, monitoring product usage or easy-to-recognize labels?
Infection that occurs when organism is introduced into the bloodstream
What is sepsis?
This can be used to document observations made when rounding on a unit
What is a checklist?
Types of blood tubes
What are tubes for blood draw, tuberculosis or viral transport medium (VTM)?
When a product might not work well after the expiration date
What is product efficacy?
A method to manage inventory
What is periodic, manual, perpetual software, scanning or data driven? (any one is correct answer)
Antimicrobial resistance can occur after this
What is unnecessary antimicrobial treatment?
We should do this at each use of a product
What is 'Check the expiration date'?
Types of microbiology supplies
What are urine tubes, swabs or stool kits?
True or False: The four Quantiferon collection tubes for tuberculosis can each have different expiration dates
What is 'True'?
More steps to develop your program
What is education, par levels or assigning expiration date checks?
This infection could occur at the skin site where blood is drawn.
What is wound infection?
This is where we store clean supplies
What is an area labeled as 'Clean' and totally separated from dirty items?
How we check for expiration
What is compare current date with label to decide if product is in-date or out-of-date?
This is the reason we discard outer shipping corrugated cardboard containers
What are larvae?
The phlebotomist checks blood draw supplies. This is what the nurse checks.
What are micro supplies?
In addition to strength and quality, these are two other factors that the FDA uses to determine expiration dates
What are stability, purity, temperature, humidity or exposure to light?
Look here when there is no use-by date on the individual product
What is 'On the box'?
How to get stock replaced
What is 'submit a request for more items'?