CHAPTER 3

Question 1

Why is infection control essential ?

Answer 1

Helps prevent the spread of infection. So certain steps must be taken in order to prevent the spread.

Question 2

What is a microbe ?

Answer 2

Microorganisms that invades the body, multiplies, and causes injury or disease.

Question 3

What are nonpathogenic microbes?

Answer 3

these microbes do not cause disease under normal conditions

Question 4

What are pathogens?

Answer 4

Microbes that cause or are capable of causing disease

Question 5

Normal Flora is…

Answer 5

these are microbes that are nonpathogenic but if they enter and multiply in areas of the body where they do not exist they can become pathogens

Question 6

What are the four microbes

Answer 6

Bacteria
Fungi
Protozoa
Viruses

Question 7

Communicable diseases are..

Answer 7

pathogenic microbes that cause infections that are able to spread from person to person

Question 8

What does CDC stand for

Answer 8

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Question 9

What does the CDC do ?

Answer 9

the CDC is in charge of investigating and controlling various disease. Especially those that are communicable and have epidemic potential.

Question 10

What does NIOSH stand for

Answer 10

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Question 11

What does the NIOSH do ?

Answer 11

they are part of the CDC, and they are responsible of conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related illness and injury.

Question 12

Nosocomial Infection is…

Answer 12

the traditional term applied to patent infections acquired in hospitals.

Question 13

Healthcare-Associated Infection is…

Answer 13

a term that applies to infections acquired during healthcare delivery in all healthcare settings, including home care.

Question 14

What does HAI stand for

Answer 14

Healthcare-Associated Infection

Question 15

What is the estimation for how much it costs the United States for HAIs

Answer 15

BILLIONS !!!

Question 16

What is the most commonly reported HAI pathogen?

Answer 16

Clostridium Difficile

Question 17

What does NHSN stand for

Answer 17

National Healthcare Safety Network

Question 18

What does NHSN do

Answer 18

is a tracking system that is most widely used by the CDC

Question 19

What is the primary measure that NHSN use ?

Answer 19

SIR

Question 20

A SIR greater than _ would indicate that there were more HAIs than expected

Answer 20

1

Question 21

A SIR less than _ would indicate there were fewer than expected

Answer 21

1

Question 22

What does HICPAC stand for

Answer 22

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

Question 23

What does the HICPAC do

Answer 23

Provides the CDC with advice and guidance regarding the practice of infection control and prevention in healthcare settings, the updating of CDC guidelines, and the development of new CDC infection control Guidelines

Question 24

What is the most common type of HAI reported to NHSN

Answer 24

UTI, and most are acquired through catheter-associated

Question 25

What does Antibiotic-Restant Infections mean

Answer 25

it is the ability of microbes to develop resistance to specific antibiotics

Question 26

What are the three most well known enemies that are antibiotic resistant..

Answer 26

-Clostridium Difficile
-Methicillin-restant Staphylococcus
-Enterococcus

Question 27

C. diff is…

Answer 27

a type of intestinal bacteria that multiplies when patients are treated with antibiotics. Most commonly known for the cause of diarrhea in healthcare settings.

Question 28

MRSA is…

Answer 28

Responsible for HAIs from skin, wound, and surgical site infections, to pneumonia and bloodstream