Module 4

Question 1

What are 3 things a fire needs to start?

Answer 1

Fuel (spark)
Combustible material
Oxygen

Question 2

What are some of the causes a fire would start in a LTC home

Answer 2

People smoking in their beds, and space heaters

Question 3

What does OHSA stand for?

Answer 3

Ontario health and safety act

Question 4

What does the OHSA do for a employee?

Answer 4

Injury
Responsible for your own safety
Lays out responsibilities for the worker and client

Question 5

What are some safety precautions around a client who uses an oxygen tank

Answer 5

Smoking could cause combustion
No smokers around it
No chemicals around it
Don’t use certain gases on the client ( vasilne)

Question 6

What is the chain of infection?

Answer 6

1) Infectious agent ( bacteria, fungi, virus’s Ect.)
2) Resivoirs ( people equipment water)
3) Portal of exit ( Excretions, Skin, Secrations, droplets)
4) Means of transmission (Direct contact, ingestion, fomites, Airborne)
5) Portal of Entry (mucous membrane, GI track, Respitory track, Broken skin)
6) Susceptible host (immunosuppression, diabetes, surgery, burns, cardiopulmonary

Question 7

What is the fire safety acronym?

Answer 7

QRACE

Question 8

What does QRACE stand for?

Answer 8

Q - uick response
R - emove / rescue
A - larm
C - onfine
E - vacuate/ extinguish

Question 9

What is WHIMIS?

Answer 9

A national system that provides safety information about hazardous material

Question 10

What is the acronym for WHIMIS

Answer 10

Workplace
Hazardous 
Material
Information
System

Question 11

What are the three components of WHMIS

Answer 11

1) Label ( symbols)
2) MSDS - material safety data sheet ( how to do it)
3) Worker Education ( controlled product hazardous material )( employer has to train it to you)

Question 12

What does the WHMIS MSDS do?

Answer 12

Gives information about the client ( given by the supplier or developed by employers)
Specifies if it can cause fire or explosion
Describe health hazards
Tells how to store safely handle and dispose of product
Lists first aid measures
You have to make your own label if you make the medication

Question 13

What is bacteria?

Answer 13

A single cell microbe which quickly multiply and can lie dormant(not actitive)

Question 14

What is fungi?

Answer 14

Microbes that live only in organic matter ( ie. athletes food)

Question 15

What are pathogens?

Answer 15

A microbe that can cause harm such as an infection or a disease.

Question 16

What are some signs and symptoms of infection?

Answer 16

• Fever / Chills
• Redness
• Swelling (Edema)
• Infection pain
• ⬆Drainage
• Puss

Question 17

How to use a fire extinguisher? What is the acronym?

Answer 17

PASS

Pull pin
Aim at fire
Squeeze
Sweep

Question 18

What happens if you don’t treat the infection

Answer 18

If you don’t treat the infection it can get into your blood stream

Question 19

What does communicable disease?

Answer 19

A disease caused by microbes (disease-causing organisms) that spreads easily. Also known as contagious disease. ( ie. chicken pox, influenza, norwalk, pinkeye, head lice)

Question 20

What are the 3 types of isolation precautions?

Answer 20

1) Contact (direct contact or indirect contact)
2) Droplet precautions ( microbe droplets found when coughing sneezing or talking wear mask gown, gloves and eye protection)
3) Airborne precautions ( bacteria virus that can be suspended in the air for long periods or time.) ( TB, Chickenpox, Measles)

Question 21

3 possible outcomes of exposure to a pathogen

Answer 21

1) An infection develops
2) The immune system destroys the pathogen
3) Immune system doesn’t destroy the pathogen. But no infection develops

Question 22

What do you use to clean equipment?

Answer 22

Autoclave ( smaller objects)

Question 23

How does the autoclave work?

Answer 23

The autoclave sterilizes instruments with a high steam temperature

Question 24

In the OHSA what are some of the employees responsibilities?

Answer 24

Follow policies
Use safety equipment
Participate in training
Participate in H&S committee
Report safety hazards

Question 25

In the OHSA what are some of the employers responsibilities?

Answer 25

Policies/Procedures
Supply safety equipment
Training/Keep records of training

Question 26

What does Diaphoresis mean?

Answer 26

Cold and Clammy

Question 27

What do First Degree(superficial) burns look like what happens to the skin

Answer 27

• Redness on top layers of the skin

- Warm to touch

Question 28

What do Partial thickness(2nd degree) burns look like?

Answer 28

• Broken / Blistered / Broken
• Deeper than First Degree
• Painful
• Should be seen by a DR
• Watch for sis ( signs and symptoms) of infection ( green/ yellow it’s bad)

Question 29

Explain Third Degree - Full thickness burns.

Answer 29

• All layers of skin
• Black - Necrosis ( Dead tissue/ black / dried out)
• White areas
• Nerve endings are destroyed
• Medical tx is needed
• Watch for s+s of shock
• Watch for s+s of infection

Question 30

What are microorganism’s?

Answer 30

A form of life (organism) that is so small (micro) it can be seen only with a microscope. Also known as a microbe.

Question 31

What are the 3 kind of restraints?

Answer 31

Physical

Environmental

Chemical

Question 32

What is a Physical Restraint?

Answer 32

garment or device used to restrict movement. They are attached to the body ( mitt restraint) or go around the clients waist

Question 33

What is an Environmental Restraint?

Answer 33

A restraint is a barrier that prevents free movement. they are not directly attached to the body. Furniture, bedrails, closed doors

Question 34

What is a chemical restraint?

Answer 34

Medication used only to control behaviour or movement. Are not required for the medical condition.