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Infection Control Flashcards

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5 Element of Infection Cycle

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Reservoir
Exit
Transmission
Infection
Susception

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Place where infection grow and reproduce

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Reservoir

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3
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Portals or points where infection leaves the host

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Exit

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4
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Modes on how infections can be spread

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Transmission

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Refers to hosts that cannot repel or destroy microorganisms that have entered in their system

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Susception

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Practices that help reduce the number and spread of microorganisms

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Medical Asepsis

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Practices that render and keep objects and areas free of all microorgranisms

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Surgical Asepsis

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Goal of Medical Asepsis

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Prevent spread of infection to others

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Goal of Surgical Asepsis

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Prevent spread of infection to the patient

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Purpose of barriers in Medical Asepsis

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Reduce the number of microorganisms

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Purpose of barriers in Medical Asepsis

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Reduce the number of microorganisms after they leave the host and prevent spread to others

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Purpose of barriers in Surgical Asepsis

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Prevent all microorganisms from reaching the patient or from contaminating a sterile field or wound

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13
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Reservoir of Medical Asepsis

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Patient

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14
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Reservoir of Surgical Asepsis

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Other people and environment

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15
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Designed to protect health care workers and patients regardless of their diagnosis or infection status

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Standard precautions

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16
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Designed to protect the caregiver from specialized patients with highly transmissible pathogens.

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Transmission-based precaution

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17
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Best means to control infection

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Standard precautions

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18
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Precaution for gloves

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Touching blood, secretions, and excretions except sweat

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19
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Precautions for protective clothing

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Px care activities and procedures when contact of body fluids is anticipated

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20
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Precaution of mask, goggles, or face shield

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Procedures that likely generate splashes of body fluids

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21
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Precautions of mouthpiece

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Prevent contact with oral secretions

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22
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Hand hygiene

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Before procedure and after glove removal or touching body fluids

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23
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Precaution for sharp materials

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Do not bend, break, recap, nor hand-manipulate

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Precaution of soiled equipment

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Handle in a manner that prevents transfer of microorganisms to others and to the environment

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25
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Modes of transmission

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Contact
Droplet
Airborne

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26
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Precaution for contact transmission

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Standard precautions when px is in isloation
Private rooms with more than 3 feet distance in between beds

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27
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Precaution for droplet transmission

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Wear mask when working in close contact with patients and place a surgical mask on the px

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28
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Precaution for airborne transmission

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An N-95 respirator or higher-level mask must be worn and place surgical mask on the px if possible.

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29
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Contact transmission diseases

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Shigella
Hepa A
Herpes Zoster
Chicken Pox
Scabies

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30
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Droplet transmission diseases

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Influenza A/B
Mumps
Rubella
MRSA

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Airborne transmission diseases

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Chicken pox
Measles
TB
SARS
Avian Influenza

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32
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Handwash sequence

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Wet hands
Apply soap
Rub palm to palm
Interlock
In between fingers (dorsum)
Clubbing
Clean thumbs
Fingertips to palm
Wrist cuffs
Rinse
Dry with towel

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33
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Hand Rubbing

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Using an alcohol-based waterless antiseptic technique
60-95 percent alcohol
1-3 percent skin conditioner

34
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Hand Washing

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Using water and liquid soap
Knee or foot-operated controls or automatic dispensers

35
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A form of surgical asepsis

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Sterile field

36
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4 Rules of Asepsis

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Know which items are sterile
Know which items are not sterile
Separate sterile items from non-sterile items
If a sterile item becomes contaminated, remedy the situation early

37
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Donning sequence

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Hand Hygiene
Shoe Covers
Gown
Mask
Eye Protection
Gloves

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Doffing sequence

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Remove Shoe Cover
Remove Gowns and Gloves together
Hand Hygiene
Remove eye protection
Remove mask
Hand Hygiene

39
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Reduces the possiblity of glove contamination when gloves are being applied

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Closed-Glove technique

40
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Has greater potential for glove contamination than the closed-glove technique

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Open-Glove Technique

41
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Objective state of ill health which may be verified by accepted canons of proof

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Disease

42
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Subjective experience of loss health

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Illness

43
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Umbrella term used to refer to the experience of disease plus illness

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Ill-health

44
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Conditions in which microorganisms thrive in

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Warm temperature
Moisture
Darkness

45
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Microorganisms which live in an environment without oxygen

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Anaerobic

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Microorganisms which needs oxygen to live

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Aerobic

47
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Microorganisms that don’t cause disease

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Nonpathogenic

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Microorganisms which is disease producing

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Pathogenic

49
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Can be treated with antibiotics

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Bacteria

50
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Smaller than bacteria and cannot be treated with antibiotics

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Viruses

51
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Larger than virus and grows within the host cell

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Protozoa

52
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Low form of plant life, includes mold & yeast

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Fungi

53
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Microorganisms that produces poisons

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Toxins

54
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Transmitted directly from one person to another

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Direct Contact

55
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Transferred from one object to another

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Indirect Contact

56
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Carried in the air

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Airborne

57
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Enters body through water, food, and dirty hands

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Oral route

58
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Picked up on insects and pests and transferred

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Insects and Pests

59
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A type of symptom involving the entire body

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Generalized

60
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A type of symptom involving a single site

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Localized

61
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Keeping away disease producing microorganisms

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Asepsis

62
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Destroy the environment that allows pathogens to live, breed, and spread

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Medical Asepsis

63
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Methods used to make the environment and workers as germ free as possible

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Aseptic technique

64
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Infecting the patient with a new microorganism from another patient or HCW

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Cross infection

65
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Infection of the same microorganism that caused the original illness

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Reinfection

66
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Infection by the patient’s own organisms

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Self-inoculation

67
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Infection control techniques

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Sterilize
Disinfect
Autoclave

68
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Make free from all living organisms

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Sterilize

69
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Process of freeing from microorganisms by physical or chemical means

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Disinfect

70
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Sterilizers which use steam under pressure to kill all organisms

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Autoclave

71
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Having limited to contact with others

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Isolation

72
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Preventing spread of disease from patient to others

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Isolation

73
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Guarding workers and visitors from dangerous

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Protective Isolation

74
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Guarding the patient from danger

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Reverse Isolation

75
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Protection from airborne droplets

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Respiratory Isolation

76
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Protection from open wounds, skin drainage

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Skin and Wound Isolation

77
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Solid body wastes

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Enteric Isolation

78
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Complete protection

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Strict Isolation

79
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CMV
HIV
Hepa B/C
Aspergillosis

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Standard precaution

80
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Airborne precautions

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Masks - Standard
Gown - prevent contamination
Glove - Standard
HW - Yes

81
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Droplet precautions

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Masks - within 3 feet
Gown - no
Gloves - if in contact with fluids
HW - Yes

82
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Contact precautions

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Masks - No
Gowns - if there is soiling.
Gloves - Yes, in touching infected material.
HW - Yes

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