Infection Prevention, Control & Safety & Body Mechanics

Question 1

Not getting the proper nutrients

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Malnutrition

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When there is an inadequate amount of fluid in the body

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Dehydration

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Federal government agency that makes rules to protect workers from hazards on the job

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OSHA (Occupational safety and health administration)

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A federal agency that issues guidelines to protect and improve the health of individuals and communities. The CDC aims to prevent and control disease, injury and disability as well as promote public health

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CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention)

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Treating blood, body fluids, non intact skin and mucous membranes as if they were infected.

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Standard Precautions

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Needles or other sharp objects.

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Sharps

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Washing hands with either plain or antiseptic soap and water or using alcohol based hand rubs

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Hand Hygiene

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To put on (like a gown)

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Don

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Describes how the pathogen travels. Transmission can occur through the air or through direct or indirect contact.

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Mode of Transmission

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Type of infection that can be localized or systemic. An infection that was acquired in a healthcare setting during the delivery of medical care

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Healthcare-associated Infection (HAI)

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Effects the entire body. Travels through the bloodstream and spreads throughout the body.

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Systemic Infection

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Remove (the gown)

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Doff

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An infection that is limited to a specific location in the body. It has local symptoms meaning the symptoms are near the sit of infection. Example: the wound becomes infected and the area around it becomes red, swollen or warm.

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Localized Infection

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When performing or helping with care of the genitals and anal area

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Perineal Care

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Skin that is broken; abrasions, cuts, rashes, acne, pimples, lesions, surgical incisions or boils

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Non-intact Skin

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Its essential for home health aids to report fire hazards

• Space heaters near fabrics like towels, bedspreads and draperies
• Matches or lighters left within reach of children or incapacitated adults
• Frayed or exposed electrical wires

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Fire Safety Guidelines

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The point where the most weight is concentrated

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Center of Gravity

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The feet are the body’s base of support, the foundation that supports an object

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Base of Support

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Has not been contaminated with pathogens

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Clean

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Has been contaminated

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Dirty

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Some examples include

• Making sure call lights are within reach and respond to call lights promptly
• Provide activities for those who wander at night
• Reduce pain levels through medication
• Decrease noise level

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Restraint Alternatives

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Anything near or on the body which restricts movement

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Physical Restraint

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Medication given primarily to control a person’s behavior like outbursts

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Chemical Restraint

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Happens by touching the infected person or his secretions

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Direct Contact

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Touching an object that was contaminated by the infected person, such as a needle, dressing, tissue or bed linen

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Indirect Contact

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The membranes that line body cavities that open to the outside of the body. These include the linings of the mouth, nose, eyes, rectum and genitalia

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Mucus Membranes

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The way the parts of the body of the body work together when a person moves

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Body Mechanics

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Discarded after one use

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Disposable

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Weakening or wasting away of the muscle

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Atrophy

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Used when the resident is at risk of spreading an infection by direct contact with a person or object

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Contact Precautions

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Inflammation of the liver caused by certain viruses and other factors such as alcohol abuse some medications and trauma.

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Hepatitis

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Confusion about a person, place or time

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Disorientation

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Loss of ability to move all or or part of the body

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Paralysis

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Can occur when eating, drinking or swallowing medication

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Choking

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Treatment that delivers oxygen gas for you to breathe, usually by tubes resting in your nose, a face mask, or a tube placed in your trachea, or windpipe. This treatment increases the amount of oxygen your lungs receive and deliver to your blood

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Oxygen Therapy

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An injury that rubs off the surface of the skin

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Abrasions

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Sudden, uncontrollable descent from a higher to a lower level with or without injury

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Falls

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Antibiotic resistance happens when the germs are no longer responding to the antibiotics used againist them. If these germs develop resistance to vancomycin, an antibiotic that is used to treat some drug-resistant infections, they become vancomycin-resistant enterococci

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VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococci)

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An antibiotic-resistant infection to mithicillin. Almost always spread by direct physical contact with infected people

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MRSA

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Condition of yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. Often found in babies

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Jaundice

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Condition of the skin, whites of the eyes and mucus membranes appearring yellow. Arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin. Often found in babies

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Jaundice

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Think mucus from the respiratory passage

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Phlegm

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Highly contagious disease caused by bacterium, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS, that is carried by mucous droplets suspended in the air. The bacteria usually effects the lungs, which is normally known as pulmonary tuberculosis.

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TB (Tuberculosis)