Chapter 3 SAFETY/ FIRE KEY TERMS

Question 1

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Answer 1

Protective clothing and other protective items worn by an individual

Question 2

Isolation Procedures

Answer 2

Separate patients with certain transmissible infections

Question 3

Protective or reverse isolation

Answer 3

Type of isolation in which protective measures are take. To keep health care workers and others from transmitting infection to a patient who is highly susceptible to infection

Question 4

Universal Precautions

Answer 4

Precautions established by the CDC and adopted by OSHA to prevent patient to personnel transmission of infection from body fluids. Under UP, blood and certain body fluids of all individuals were considered potentially infectious

Question 5

Joint Commission

Answer 5

Requires every healthcare institution to have an infection control program responsible for protecting patient, employees, visitors, and anyone doing business within healthcare institutions from infections

Question 6

Body substance isolation (BSI)

Answer 6

Type of infection control precautions that preceded standard precautions and suffered from universal precautions by requiring glove use when contacting any moist body substance

Question 7

Standard precautions

Answer 7

Precautions to use in caring for all patients regardless of diagnosis or presumed infection status that are intended to minimize the risk of infection transmission from both recognized and unrecognized sources, they apply to blood, all body fluids (including all secretions and excretions except sweat, whether or not they contain visible blood), non intact skin, and mucous membranes

Question 8

Transmission based precautions

Answer 8

Precautions used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected or colonized with highly transmissible or epidemiologically significant pathogens

Question 9

Airborne precautions

Answer 9

Must be used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected with microorganisms transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei (particles smaller than 5 micrometers)

Question 10

Droplet precautions

Answer 10

Must be used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected with microorganisms transmitted by droplets (particles larger than 5 micrometers) generates when a patient talks, coughs, or sneezes and during certain procedures such as suctioning

Question 11

Contact precautions

Answer 11

Must be used in addition to standard precautions when a patient is known or suspected to be infected or colonized contact with the patient or indirect contact with surfaces or patient care items

Question 12

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Answer 12

U.S. government agency that mandates and enforces safe working conditions for employees

Question 13

Biosafety

Answer 13

Term used to describe the safe handling of biologic substances that pose a risk to health

Question 14

Biohazard

Answer 14

Any material or substance harmful to health , Short for biological health

Question 15

Biohazard Symbol

Answer 15

Identifies harmful biohazards as a symbol

Question 16

Parenteral

Answer 16

Any route other than the digestive tract

Question 17

Percutaneous

Answer 17

Through the skin

Question 18

Permucosal

Answer 18

Through the mucous membranes

Question 19

Bloodborne pathogen (BBP)

Answer 19

Term applies to infectious microorganisms in blood or other body fluids

Question 20

Bloodborne pathogens (BBP) standard

Answer 20

OSHA regulations designed to protect employees with potential occupational exposure to pathogens found in blood or other body fluids or substances

Question 21

Engineering controls

Answer 21

Devices such as sharps disposal containers and needles with safety feature that isolate or remove a bloodborne pathogen hazard from the work place

Question 22

Work practice controls

Answer 22

Practices that alter the manner in which a task is performed to reduce the likelihood of bloodborne pathogen exposure

Question 23

Needlestick safety and prevention act

Answer 23

Federal law that directed OSHA to revise the BBP standard in 4 key areas: revision of the exposure control plan, selecting engineering and work practice controls with employee input, modification of engineering control definitions, and new record keeping requirements

Question 24

Environmental protection agency (EPA)

Answer 24

A federal agency that regulates the disposal of hazardous waste

Question 25

Fire tetrahedron

Answer 25

The latest way of looking at the chemistry of fire in which the chemical reaction that produces fire is added as a fourth component to the traditional fire triangle components of fuel, heat, and oxygen

Question 26

National fire protection association

Answer 26

Federal agency that regulates Disinfectant products and the disposal of biohazards is waste among other responsibilities associated with developing and enforcing regulations that implements environmental laws enacted by Congress

Question 27

Radiation hazard Symbol

Answer 27

Required in areas where radioactive materials are used and in cabinet or refrigerator doors where radioactive materials are stored

Question 28

Hazard communication (HazCom) standard

Answer 28

OSHA developed this to require all employers maintain documentation on all hazardous chemicals

Question 29

Material safety data sheets (MSDS)

Answer 29

A written document containing general information as well as precautionary and emergency information for any product with a hazardous warning on the label

Question 30

Avulsion

Answer 30

A tearing away or amputation of a body part