Infectious Control, Safety, First Aid, and Personal Wellness Flashcards
When a microorganism invades the body multiplies and causes injur or disease
Inferction
Infections are:
- Communicable
- Nosocomial & Healthcare-associated infections
A microbe that can cause diseases, which could beclassified as bacteria, fungi, protozoa or viruses
Pathogen
5 Moments for Hand Hygiene
- Before Touching a Patient
- Before Clean/Aseptic Procedure
- After Body Fluid Exposure Risk
- After Touching a Patient
- After touching Patient Surroundings
Six Components of Chain of Infection
- Infectious Agent (Causative)
- Reservoir
- Exit Pathway
- Means of Transmission
- Entry Pathway
- Susceptible Host
Pathogenic microbe such as virus, bacteria, fungus, protozoa, rickettsia
Infectious Agent
Source of Infection agent or place where microbe
Reservior
A way or manner where an infectious agent can leave the reservoir host which could be through secretions and exudates, tissue specimens, blood, feces, urine
Exit Pathway
Airborne, direct (touching or kissing) contact or indirect contact (contaminated objects), droplets (cough, sneeze), vector(insects), and vehicle (food, water, drugs)
Means of transmission
Refers to the way an infectious agent enters a host that is susceptible to infection which includes body orifices, mucous membranes, and braks in skin
Entry Pathway
Someone who is prone to infection due to age, health or immune status. They usually include the elderly; newborn, patients who are immune suppressed, unvaccinated, and those suffering from acute or chronic illness
Susceptible Host
Non-Infeectious Dry Waste
Black and Green
infectious/Pathological Wate
Yellow
Sharps
Red
Radioactive Waste
Orange yern
4 Functions of Infection-Control Program
- Protect patient, employees, and visitors from infection
- Screen employees for infectious diseases and require immunization when needed
- Provide evaluation and treatment to health workers who were exposed to infections while performing their duty
- Monitor employees and patients who are at risk of infection and collect data from patients and health worker who were exposed to such
Routine hand washing which uses plain soap and water
Hand Washing
Uses antimicrobial soap to remove transient microorganisms, which is also the kind of soap used when washing the hands with the 2-minute surgical hand scrub prior to performing surgical procedures
Hand Antisepsis
Handwashing steps
Self-Reported Factors for Poor Adherence with Hand Hygiene
- Lack of Sinks | Inconvenient location
- Lack of soap and paper towel
- Hand Washing Agents caused irritation and dryness
- Too Busy
- Understaffing or Overcrowding
Why wash hands after wearing gloves?
- Contact of contaminated items or surface is possible
- Glove may become permeable when in contact with liquids
- Defective gloves
Donning
Gown, Mask, Gloves