Infection Control

Question 1

What is medical asepsis?

Answer 1

Practices and procedures to reduce the risk of infection, including, but not limited to: hand hygiene, environmental cleaning and barrier techniques.

Question 2

What are isolation precautions?

Answer 2

Isolation precautions comprise standard, contact, airborne, and droplet precautions in addition to protective environments for immunocompromised clients. The goal is to eliminate or reduce infection transmission from one person to another.

Question 3

What is surgical asepsis?

Answer 3

Sterile technique to prevent infection of a surgical wound that includes procedures to prohibit the presence of pathogens from the client, medical personnel, equipment, and surgical environment.

Question 4

Hand hygiene refers to both handwashing with

Answer 4

An anti microbial or plain soap and water as well as alcohol -based products

Question 5

When should you perform hand hygiene?

Answer 5

After touching body fluids, blood, secretions, excretions, contaminated items

Question 6

When are sterile gloves used?

Answer 6

Surgical asepsis

Question 7

What are airborne precautions?

Answer 7

Measures taken to prevent the spread of disease transmitted by small (less than 5 microns) respiratory droplets from an infected person.

Question 8

What are transmission based precautions?

Answer 8

Measures taken in addition to standard precautions to interrupt transmission of pathogens from clients who may be infected or colonized with certain infectious agents; specifically, airborne, droplet, and contact precautions.