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What is infection?

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Invasion of the body, or part of the body by a pathogenic agent producing an injurious effect

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What is a pathogen?

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A microorganism capable of producing disease

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What is bacteria?

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Most significant and most prevalent in hospital setting

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What shape is a spherical bacteria?

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Cocci

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What is rod shaped bacteria called?

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Bacilli

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What is the corkscrew bacteria shape called?

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Spirochetes

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If bacteria is gram positive what color does it turn?

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Violet; have a thick cell wall that resists decolorization (loss of color)

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If bacteria is gram negative what happens?

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They chemically have more complex cell walls and can’t be decolorized by alcohol

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What is aerobic?

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Bacteria that require oxygen to live and grow

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What is anaerobic?

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Bacteria that can live without oxygen

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What is a virus?

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Smallest of all microorganisms

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What is fungi?

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Plant-like organisms present in air, soil, and water; they are highly resistant (ex. Yeast infection, athletes foot)

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what are prions?

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Protein particle (new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)

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What are parasites?

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Protozoa (malaria, toxoplasmosis, and helminths (worms, flatworms, roundworms)

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What is an opportunistic pathogen?

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May become pathogenic in certain circumstances

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What is virulence?

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Relative power and degree of pathogenicity; ability to produce disease

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What are the factors affecting an organisms potential to produce disease?

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  1. Number of organisms
  2. Virulence
  3. Competence of person’s immune system
  4. Length and intimacy of contact between person and microorganism
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What are Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI)?

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Acquired in healthcare agency during course of treatment for other infections; no noted as being present upon admission

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What is nosocomial?

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Infection taking place or originating while in hospital

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What is an Iatrogenic infection?

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Acquired as a direct result of treatment/procedure (ex. Inserting Fowler catheter)

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What are the 6 Chain of infection?

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  1. Infectious Agent
  2. Reservoir
  3. Portal of Exit
  4. Means of transmission
  5. Portal of Entry
  6. Susceptible host
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What is Infectious agent?

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Infectious organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites

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What is a reservoir?

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Source of microorganism where they grow and multiply; such as people, animals, soil, insects, food, water, milk, inanimate objects, and plants

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What is portal of exit?

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Point of escape from reservoir such as respiratory, GI,GU, or reproductive tract, breaks in skin (wound), blood and tissue

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What is Means of transmission?
Process of how microorganism transfers from reservoir (direct contact, indirect contact, airborne route)
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What is portal of entry?
Point at which organisms enter a new host
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What is a susceptible host?
Any person who is at risk for infection—being in a weakened condition from illness or injury; very young, very old, especially at risk
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What are the 3 methods of transmission?
Contact (direct or indirect), Droplet, and Airborne
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What is direct contact?
Infected person or CARRIER transmission to susceptible person (HOST) through touching, bitting, kissing, sex act, scratching, etc.
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What is indirect contact?
Contact with any contaminated substance or object: finite (inanimate object)
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What is droplet transmission?
Large particle droplets that don’t remain in the air (ex. Coughing and sneezing)
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What is airborne transmission?
Smaller particle droplets that remain in the air (ex. TB)
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What is a protective environment?
Helps protect clients who are immunocompromised, requires a mask for the client when out of room, not a type of precaution but an intervention, and requires a private room, positive airflow 12 or more air-exchanges/hr and HEPA filtration for incoming air
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What are vector-arthropods contact transmission?
Fleas feed on rats infected with the plague contracting the plague then bites people to feed again passing it on to a human victor with their saliva (mosquitos-malaria, West Nile virus) (ticks-Lyme disease)
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What are the stages of infection?
1. Incubation 2. Prodromal 3. Full stage of illness 4. Convalescent period
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What is incubation?
Interval between the pathogen invasion of the body & appearance of s/s
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What is prodromal?
Most infectious state (nonspecific s/s)
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What is full stage of illness?
Full blown symptoms (specific symptoms)
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What is convalescent period?
Recovery, depending on how severe the infection was
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What is the bodies first line of defense?
Skin and mucous membrane (intact skin, sebum, cilia, mucus, macrophages, flush of urine, gastric acidity, normal flora (everywhere)
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What is nonspecific inflammatory?
Defensive response to injury or infection, Destroys microorganisms, Prevents spread, promotes repair, and has vascular and cellular stages
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What is the vascular stage of nonspecific inflammatory?
Small blood vessels constrict in area followed by vasodilation of arterioles & venules that supply that area & increase blood flow resulting in redness and heat; histamine is released which increases permeability of vessels that allows protein rich fluid in area
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What is the cellular stage of nonspecific inflammatory?
WBC (leukocytes) move quickly into the area. Neutrophils (phagocytes) engulf organisms & consume cell debris. Exudate released from wound. The damaged cells are repaired by either regeneration or formation of scar tissue
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What is native immunity in nonspecific innate?
Restricts entry or immediately responds to foreign organism through activation of phagocyte cells, complements of inflammation
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What is passive (nonspecific innate)?
Antibodies produced by external source; temp immunity that does not have memory of past exposure, 1st line of defense, mucus membranes, inflammatory response
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What is specific adaptive immunity?
Allows body to make antibodies in response to foreign organisms or antigen
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What is active (specific adaptive immunity)?
Antibody produced in response to antigen; requires time to react with antigens, provides permanent immunity, involves b&t lymphocytes, produces specific antibodies against specific antigens, host produces antibodies with exposure or immunization
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What is antibody mediated or humoral (specific innate immunity) ?
B lymphocytes make antibodies that bind to foreign invader (antigen) and kill it while it is traveling in the body’s fluid (active immunity)
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What is cell mediated (specific adaptive immunity)?
Several types of T cells take on the foreign invader once it has made into the body’s cell ultimately killing the pathogen and patient’s own cell (active immunity)
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What is contact transmission used used with?
Used with patients infected with Multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO)
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What is droplet transmission based precaution used for?
Used with patients infected with organisms spread by coughing large droplets (mumps, rubella, diphtheria)
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What is airborne transmission based precautions used for?
Used with patients infected with small organisms that build up in and spread through the air (TB)
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What type of PPE do you use for standard base precautions?
Gloves
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What type of PPE do you use with airborne ?
Private room with negative pressure airflow and N-95 mask
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What type of PPE do you use for contact transmission based precautions?
Private room if available and gloves
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How do you support defenses of susceptible host?
Hygiene, healthy nutrition, fluids (promotes circulation and especially urinary tract function, rest & sleep, exercise and immunizations
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What infection or disease may spread by touching a contaminated inanimate article?
A. Rabies B. Giardia C. E. Coli D. Influenza = D. Influenza
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True or False: soaps and detergents (no anti microbial agents) are considered adequate for routine mechanical cleansing of the hands and removal of most transient microorganisms
True
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True or False: standard precautions should be used when caring for noninfectious, postoperative patient who is vomiting blood
True
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A nurse is assisting with teaching a newly licensed nurse about hand hygiene for surgical asepsis. Which of the following instruction should the nurse include?
Apply chlorhexidine and ethanol to the hands

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