Ch.27

Question 1

Vulnerable groups include:

Answer 1

infants, children, older adults, the ill, the physically and mentally disabled, the illiterate, and the poor.

Question 2

Basic human needs:

Answer 2

adequate oxygen, nutrition, and favorable temperature, and humidity.

Question 3

Carbon minoxide

Answer 3

colorless, odorless, poisonous gas. > this gas binds strongly with hemoglobin; preventing the formation of oxyhemoglobin and thus reducing the supply of oxygen delivered to the tissues.

Question 4

Low and high concentrations

Answer 4

Low; nausea, dizziness, headache and fatigue.

High; fatal

Question 5

Food poisoning

Answer 5

Escherichia coli, salmonella, shigella, or listeria.

Question 6

Food borne diseases are

Answer 6

bacterial, hepatitis A virus by fecal contamination of food, water, or milk.

Question 7

Relative humidity

Answer 7

is the amount of water vapor in the air compared with maximum amount of water vapor that the air could contain the same temperature.

Question 8

Immunization

Answer 8

the process by which resistance to an infectious disease is produced or increased, often reduces or prevents the transmission of disease from person to person.

Question 9

Active immunity

Answer 9

when the body acquires a small amount of weakened or dead organisms + modified toxins from the organism is injected into the body.

Question 10

Passive immunity

Answer 10

occurs when antibodies produced by another other persons or animals are introduced into a persons blood stream for protection against a pathogen.

Question 11

Patient inherent accidents

Answer 11

accidents other than falls in which the patient is the primary factor causing the accident. Ex; self-inflicted cuts, injuries, and burns, infection or injection of foreign substances; self mutilation or setting fires. seizures.

Question 12

Procedure- related accidents

Answer 12

accidents caused by health care providers and include medication and fluid administration errors, improper application of external devices, and improper performance of procedures such as dressing changes.

Question 13

Equipment related accidents

Answer 13

accidents result from the malfunction, disrepair, or misuse of equipment or from an electrical hazard. Ex: too-rapid infusion of intravenous (IV) fluids. TJC requires that hospitals use programmable infusion pumps when heparin, an anticoagulant medication.