Ch. 5: Infection Contron: Principals & Practices Flashcards
Identify and Describe the acronym:
MSDS
Material Safety Data Sheet: information compiled by the manufacturer about product safety, including the names of hazardous ingredients, safe handling and use procedures, precautions to reduce the risk of accidental harm or overexposure, and flammability warnings.
Identify and Describe the acronym:
EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency: registers all types of disinfectants sold and used in the United States.
What are Disinfectants?
Chemical products that destroy all bacteria, fungi, and viruses (but not spores) on surfaces.
What are Hospital Disinfectants?
Are effective for cleaning blood and bodily fluids. They can be used on any nonporous surface in the salon.
Define: Nonporous
An item that is made or constructed of a material that has no pores or openings and cannot absorb liquids.
Define: Disease
An abnormal condition of all or part of the body, or its systems or organs, that makes the body incapable of carrying on normal functions.
What are Tuberculocidal Disinfectants?
Disinfectants proven to kill the bacteria that causes tuberculosis.
(A disease caused by bacteria that are transmitted through coughing or sneezing)
What is Tuberculosis?
A disease caused by bacteria that are transmitted through coughing or sneezing.
Identify and Describe the acronym:
OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration: was created as part of the U.S. Department of Labor to regulate and enforce safety and health standards to protect employees in the workforce.
A microscopic germ that normally exists in tap water in small numbers.
Mycrobacterium Fortuitum
Define: Infectious
Caused by or capable of being transmitted by infection.
Define: Infection
The invasion of the body tissues by disease-causing pathogens.
What is Infection Control?
Methods used to eliminate or reduce the transmission of infections organisms.
Define: Clean
“Cleaning” is a mechanical process (scrubbing) using soap and water or detergent and water to remove all visible dirt, debris, and many disease-causing germs from tools, implements, and equipment.
What is Disinfection?
The process of ‘disinfection’ destroys most, but not necessarily all, harmful organisms on environmental surfaces.
Define: Bactericidal
Capable of destroying bacteria.
Define: Virucidal
Capable of destroying viruses.
Define: Fungicidal
Capable of destroying fungi.
What is Bacteria?
Single-celled organisms that have both plant and animal characteristics.
What is a Microorganism?
Any organism of microscopic or submicroscopic size.
What are two primary types of bacteria?
BONUS:
Define them.
- Nonpathogenic: harmless organisms that may perform useful functions.
- Pathogenic: harmful microorganism stay can cause disease or infection in humans when they invade the body’s
What are the functions of Nonpathogenic Bacteria?
- Safe and does not cause disease or harm.
- Used to make yogurt.
- Can exist almost everywhere: skin, under your nails, water, air, decayed matter, environmental surfaces, body secretions, and clothing.
Transmission of blood or bodily fluids through touching (including shaking hands), kissing, coughing, sneezing, and talking.
Direct Transmission
Transmission of blood or bodily fluids through contact with an intermediate contaminated object such as a razor, extractor, nipper, or an environmental surface.
Indirect Trransmission
A nonscientific synonym for disease-producing organisms.
Germs
What are Parasites?
Organisms that grow, feed, and shelter on or in another organism (referred to as a host), while contributing nothing to the survival of that organism. Parasites must have a host to survive.
What are Toxins?
Various poisonous substances produced by some microorganisms (bacteria and viruses).
A parasitic submicroscopic particle that infects and resides in cells of biological organisms.
Virus
What are the 3 distinct shapes to help identify bacteria?
Cocci, Bacilli, and Spirilla
Describe the appearance of Cocci?
Cocci: round-shaped bacteria that appears singly (alone) or in groups.
List and describe the 3 forms of Cocci.
- Staphylococci: pus-forming bacteria that grow in clusters like bunches of grapes. They cause abscesses, pustules, and boils.
- Streptococci: pus-forming bacteria arranged in curved lines resembling a string of beads
- Diplococci: a spherical bacteria that grow in pairs and cause diseases such a pneumonia.
Identify and Describe the acronym:
HCS
Hazard Communication Standard: which requires that chemical manufacturers and importers assess and communicate the potential hazards associated with their products.
Describe the appearance of Bacilli.
Short rod-shaped bacteria.
- They are the most common bacteria produced in diseases such as tetanus (lockjaw), typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and diphtheria.
Describe the appearance of Spirilla.
Spiral or corkscrew-shaped bacteria.
- They are subdivided into subgroups, such as treponema pallidum, which causes syphilis, and borrelia burgdorferi, which ch causes Lyme disease.
Define: Motility
Self-Movement