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Question 1

in contact with disease producing organisms

Answer 1

Contamination

Question 2

Lack of appetite

Answer 2

Anorexia

Question 3

These precautions are used for clients known or suspected to have serious illnesses transmitted by particle droplets larger than 5 microns

Answer 3

Droplet precautions

Question 4

These precautions are used for clients known or suspected to have serious illnesses transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei smaller than 5 microns

Answer 4

Airborne precautions

Question 5

Abnormal loss of hair

Answer 5

Alopecia

Question 6

The process by which an article is rendered free of pathogens

Answer 6

Disinfection

Question 7

Difficulty swallowing

Answer 7

Dysphagia

Question 8

An agent that destroys pathogens other than spores

Answer 8

Disinfectant

Question 9

These precautions are used for clients known or suspected to have serious illnesses easily transmitted by direct client contact or by contact with items in the client’s environment i.e. gastrointestinal, respiratory, skin, or wound infections of colonization with multi-drug resistant bacteria

Answer 9

Contact precautions

Question 10

Clients that are highly susceptible to infection.

Examples: clients with leukemia, extensive skin repairment such as severe dermatitis or major burns that cannot be effectively covered with dressings

Answer 10

Compromised clients

Question 11

Day to day disinfection of articles used by infected patients who are in isolation

Answer 11

Concurrent disinfection

Question 12

Freedom from infection or infectious material

Answer 12

Asepsis

Question 13

insufficient fluid in the body

Answer 13

Dehydration

Question 14

Expulsion of feces from rectum and anus

Answer 14

Defecation

Question 15

Profuse sweating

Answer 15

Diaphoresis