Medical Asepsis& Osha Standards

Question 0

What is OSHA ?

Answer 0

The occupation safety and health administration

Question 1

Medical asepsis and infections controls are ?

Answer 1

Crucial in preventing the spread of disease.

Question 2

What does OSHA do!

Answer 2

Reduce the exposure of health care employee to infectious disease

Question 3

What are microorganisms

Answer 3

Tiny living plants or animals that cannot be seen with the naked eye & must be viewed with a microscope

Question 4

What are harmful microorganisms ?

Answer 4

Pathogens

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What are non harmful microorganisms

Answer 5

Non-pathogen

Question 6

Medical asepsis means!

Answer 6

That an object or area is clean& free from infection

Question 7

For microorganism to survive there must be what seven growth requirements

Answer 7

Proper nutrition 
Oxygen
Temperature 
Moisture
Ph

Question 8

For a pathogen to survive and produce disease, a continuous cycle must be followed; this is known as?

Answer 8

Infection process cycle

Question 9

If at any point of the cycle the infection process is broken what happens

Answer 9

The pathogen dies

Question 10

Aerobe is what

Answer 10

Microorganism that need oxygen (o2) to live and grow

Question 11

What are ANAEROBES

Answer 11

Microorganism that grow WITHOUT oxygen

Question 12

Hair like projections that constantly best towards the outside to remove microorganism from the body

Answer 12

Cilia

Question 13

To soil or make impure

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Contaminate

Question 14

Optimum growth

Answer 14

Grow best at 98.6F

Grows best in

Question 15

Neutral ph

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Most microorganism prefer it. If the environment of the microorganism become too acidic or too basic they die

Question 16

Infectious process cycle

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Reservoir host
Means of exit 
Means of transmission
Means of entry 
And susceptible host

Question 17

The body’s most important defense mechanism

Answer 17

SKIN

Question 18

Hand hygiene

Answer 18

The process of cleansing or sanitizing the hands.

Question 19

Issued new recommendations for hand hygiene in health care settings

Answer 19

CDC

Question 20

Transient flora

Answer 20

Lives and grows on the superficial skin layers, or epidermis. It’s is picked up on the hands in the course of daily actives

Question 21

Recommend that the hand washing be performed when the hands are visibly soiled .

Answer 21

CDC hand washing guidelines

Question 22

Advantages of alcohol based hand rub

Answer 22

• more accessible than sinks
• they do not require rinsing
• no water or towels needed
• less time needed to wash hands
• less damages to the skin
• less dryness and irritation
• most alcohol base hand rubs contain emollients, which helps prevent the skin of hands from over drying

Question 23

OSHA occupational EXPOSURE to blood borne pathogen standards

Answer 23

These regulations went into effect in 1992 and are designed to reduce the risk to employees of exposure to infectious diseases

Question 24

The OSHA BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS STANDARDS

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Must be followed by any employee with occupational exposure to pathogens, regardless of the place of employment . Dental hygienist, medical technicians. Law enforcement officers

Question 25

The NSP directed to OSHA TO….

Answer 25

Revise the bloodborne pathogen standard to incorporate stronger measures to reduce needlesticks and other sharp injuries among health care workers

Question 26

Parental

Answer 26

Refers to piercing of the skin or mucous membranes

Question 27

Blood

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Means human blood

Question 28

OPIM

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Other potentially infectious materials

Question 29

OPIM

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Semen and vaginal secrections, anybody fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood. Any unfixed human tissue. Any tissue , cells culture, or fluid known to be HIV infected

Question 30

Nointact skin

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Is skin that has a break in the surface. Skin with dermatitis burn and chapping

Question 31

Exposure incident

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Is a specific splashing blood into eyes

Question 32

Exposure control plan

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OSHA requires employers to review and update thier ECP at least annually to ensure that the plan remains current with the latest information or eliminating or reducing exposures to bloodborne pathogens

Question 33

Engineer controls

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Includes all control measures that isolate or remove health hazards from the workplace

Question 34

Safer medical device

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Is a device that based on reasonable judgement would make an exposure incident involving a contaminated sharpness likely

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Reservoir host

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The organism that becomes infected by a pathogen and serves as a source of transfer of the pathogen to others

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Postexposture prophylaxis

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Treatment administered to an individual after exposure to an infected disease to prevent the disease

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Regulated medical waste (RMW)

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Medical waste that poses a threat to health and safety

Question 38

Resident flora

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Harmless non pathogenic microorganisms that normally reside on the skin and ussally do bit cause disease also known as normal flora

Question 39

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids)

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A chronic disorder of the immune system that eventually destroys the body’s ability to fight off infections

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Opportunistic infection

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Is an infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot defend itself from pathogens normally found in the environment

Question 41

Personal protective equipment

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Gloves when it is anticipated that your hands will touch blood and other infectious material

Question 42

Safer medical device

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Is a device that based on reasonable judgement would make an exposure incident involving a contaminated sharp less likely

Question 43

Engineering controls

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Including all controls measures that isolate or remove health hazards from the workplace