Chapter 3 SAFETY, FIRST AID, AND PERSONAL WELNEESS Key Terms

Question 1

Joint Commission

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Personal Protective Equipment

PPE

Answer 2

Protective clothing and other protective items worn by an individual

Question 3

Isolation procedures

Answer 3

Separate patients with certain transmissible infections from contact with other patients with certain transmissible infections from contact with other patients and limit their contact with hospital personnel and visitors.

Question 4

Protective or reverse isolation

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Type of isolation in which protective measures are taken to keep healthcare workers and others from transmitting infection to a patient who is highly susceptible to infection.

Question 5

Universal precautions (UP)

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

Question 6

Body substance isolation (BSI)

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

Question 7

Standard precautions

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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

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Precautions used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected or colonized with highly transmissible or epidemiologically significant pathogens. (Airborne, droplet, or contact routes)

Question 9

Airborne precautions

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Which just be used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected with microorganisms transmitted by airborne droplet nuclei

Question 10

Droplet precautions

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Which must be used in addition to standard precautions for patients known or suspected to be infected with microorganisms transmitted by droplets, generated when a patient talks, coughs, or sneezes and during certain procedures such as suctioning

Question 11

Contact precautions

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Which must be in addition to standard precautions when a patient is known or suspected to be infected or colonized with epidemiologically important microorganisms that can be transmitted by direct contact with the patient and indirect contact with surfaced or patient-care items.

Question 12

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

OSHA

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Mandating employers to ensure safety working conditions

Question 13

Biosafety

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

Question 14

Biohazard

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Short for biological hazard ; anything potentially harmful to health

Question 15

Biohazard symbol

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Identifies any biohazards

Question 16

Parenteral

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Any route other than the digestive system

Question 17

Percutaneous

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Through the skin

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Permucosal

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Through mucous membranes

Question 19

Bloodborne pathogen

BBP

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Term applied to infectious microorganisms in blood or tiger body fluids and tissues

Question 20

Bloodborne pathogens standard

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OSHA regulations designed to protect employees with potential occupational ox posture to pathogens found in blood or other boost fluids or substances and tissues

Question 21

Engineering controls

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

Question 22

Work practice controls

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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

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Federal law that directed OSHA to revise the BBP standard in four 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

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A federal agency that regulated the disposal of hazardous waste.

Question 25

Fire tetrahedron

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

Question 26

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA

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Federal agency hat regulates disinfectant products and the disposal of hazardous waste among other responsibilities associated with developing and enforcing regulations that implement environmental laws enacted by Congress

Question 27

Radiation hazard symbol

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Symbol required in areas where radioactive materials are used on and cabinet or refrigerator doors where radioactive materials are stored

Question 28

Hazard Communication (HazCom) Standard

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Abbreviation for the OSHA Hazardous Communication Standard that requires employers to maintain documentation on all hazardous chemicals

Question 29

Material safety data sheets (MSDS)

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

Question 30

Avulsion

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A tearing away or amputation of a body part