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Infectious Control, Safety, First Aid, and Personal Wellness Flashcards

1
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When a microorganism invades the body multiplies and causes injur or disease

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Inferction

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Infections are:

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  1. Communicable
  2. Nosocomial & Healthcare-associated infections
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A microbe that can cause diseases, which could beclassified as bacteria, fungi, protozoa or viruses

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Pathogen

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5 Moments for Hand Hygiene

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  1. Before Touching a Patient
  2. Before Clean/Aseptic Procedure
  3. After Body Fluid Exposure Risk
  4. After Touching a Patient
  5. After touching Patient Surroundings
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Six Components of Chain of Infection

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  1. Infectious Agent (Causative)
  2. Reservoir
  3. Exit Pathway
  4. Means of Transmission
  5. Entry Pathway
  6. Susceptible Host
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Pathogenic microbe such as virus, bacteria, fungus, protozoa, rickettsia

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Infectious Agent

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Source of Infection agent or place where microbe

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Reservior

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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

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Exit Pathway

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Airborne, direct (touching or kissing) contact or indirect contact (contaminated objects), droplets (cough, sneeze), vector(insects), and vehicle (food, water, drugs)

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Means of transmission

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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

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Entry Pathway

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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

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Susceptible Host

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Non-Infeectious Dry Waste

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Black and Green

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infectious/Pathological Wate

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Yellow

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Sharps

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Red

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Radioactive Waste

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Orange yern

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4 Functions of Infection-Control Program

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  1. Protect patient, employees, and visitors from infection
  2. Screen employees for infectious diseases and require immunization when needed
  3. Provide evaluation and treatment to health workers who were exposed to infections while performing their duty
  4. Monitor employees and patients who are at risk of infection and collect data from patients and health worker who were exposed to such
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Routine hand washing which uses plain soap and water

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Hand Washing

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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

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Hand Antisepsis

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Handwashing steps

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Self-Reported Factors for Poor Adherence with Hand Hygiene

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  1. Lack of Sinks | Inconvenient location
  2. Lack of soap and paper towel
  3. Hand Washing Agents caused irritation and dryness
  4. Too Busy
  5. Understaffing or Overcrowding
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Why wash hands after wearing gloves?

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  1. Contact of contaminated items or surface is possible
  2. Glove may become permeable when in contact with liquids
  3. Defective gloves
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Donning

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Gown, Mask, Gloves

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Doffing

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Gloves, Gown, Mask

24
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Needlestick or other injuries cause by sharp objects can expose health workers to?

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Blood-Borne Pathogens

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Most common pathogens

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  1. Hepatitis B (HBV)
  2. Hepatitis C (HCV)
  3. Human Immunodeficiency VIrus (HIV)
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Blood and other body fluids. Can survive a week on objects. Transmitted via needle sticks, sexual contacts

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  1. Hepatitis B Virus
  2. Hepatitis D Virus
27
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Blood & Serum; sometimes salive. Infection primarily occurs after large and multiple exposures. Transmitted via needlestick, sexual contact

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Hepatitis C Virus

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Needle Stick or other sharp injury

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  1. Carefully remove shards
  2. Wash the site thoroughtly with soap and water or 30 seconds
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ucous membrane exposure

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  1. Splash with water or saline for at least 10 minute
30
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Use of 1:10 bleach solution or other disinfectants for the specimen collection and precessing areas.

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Surface Decontamination

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Refers to any material that could be harmful to one’s health

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Used to preven and protect clinical laboratories from harmful incidents caused by laboratory specimen that are potentially biohazard

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From splashes and aerosols furing centrifuge and aliquot

34
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Did not sanitize hands before handling food

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Non-Intact Skin

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Contamination through breaks or cuts in the skin

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Exposure through the skin due to injuries from needlesticks and other sharp objects

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Percutaneous

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Infection through mucous emmbranes of the mouth and nose and the conjunctiva of the eyes

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Permucosal

38
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RACE (for when fire is discovered)

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RESCUE
ALARM
CONTAIN
EXTINGUISH

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Operation of Fire Extinguisher (PASS)

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PULL
AIM
SQUEEZE
SWEEP

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Blue

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Health Hazard

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Red

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Fire hazard

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Yellow

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Reactivity

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White

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Specific Hazard

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Ordinary Combustible

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Flammable Liquids

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Electrical Equipment

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Flammable Metals

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Arsena fire

49
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Condition when there is not enough blood tha tcirculates back to the heart which results to inadequate supply of oxyegn in the body

50
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Procedure done during emergency cases such as when a person is in cardiac arrest

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Cardiopulmonaary Resuscitation (CPR)

51
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Performing CPR properly

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  1. Fingers should be raised so they do not touch the ribcage
  2. Give 30 compressions at a rate of 100 compressions per minute
52
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Class a Extinguisher

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Pressurized water and Dry Chemical

53
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Class B Extinguisher

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Carbon Dioxide and Dry Chemical

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Class C Extinguisher

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Halon, Carbon Dioxide, and Dry Chemical

55
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Class D Extinguisher

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