LPC02 Flashcards
When should you wash your hands?
Before and after contact with patient and after contact with contaminated/dirty materials.
What infection control techniques should be used to minimize spread?
Wear gloves, protective eyewear, masks, gowns, and shoe covers.
Wash hands after patient contact.
Do not recap our best needles, place directly in SHARPS container.
Report exposure, keep draining wounds and skin breaks covered, and provide clean linen. Avoid coughing, sneezing, or talking over.
What to use neutropenic(reverse isolation) for?
For patients with weakened immune response such as HIV patients.
What is host resistance?
Naturally occurring body floras have an antibiotic relationship with pathogens and contribute to an individuals health.
What increases a pathogens virulence?
Some form protective capsules, others produce enzymes that destroy blood send to stop clotting.
What microorganism is most difficult to control/destroy?
Spore forming bacteria.
What is a nosocomial infection?
Infections acquired during the process of receiving health care.
What is a pathogen?
Microorganisms that cause disease.
What are the types of transmission for both direct and indirect microorganisms?
Direct: direct contact, droplets spread
Indirect: airborne, vehicles, vectors, portal of entry, and susceptible hosts.
Types of microorganisms
Algae, fungi, Protozoa, bacteria, spores, pathogenic bacteria, viruses.
What microorganisms is most difficult to kill?
Spores
What microorganisms need a host to make protein and energy?
Viruses
Chain of infection
Pathogenic microorganism, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host.
What microorganisms is single cell with no nucleus?
Bacteria
What is the difference between communicable and contagious?
Contagious is transmitted to many individuals quickly and easily, communicable is spread from one to another.
