Standard Precautions

Question 1

All specimens are treated as potentially infectious, and must take…?

Answer 1

Standard Precautions

Question 2

A patient infected with an Antibiotic Resistant Organism (ARO) should not share a room with a person who is:

• There is a clear relationship between the length of a hospital stay and the risk of infection.

Answer 2

> Immunocompromised

> has an open wound

> has a urinary catheter

> has a feeding tube inserted percutaneously

Question 3

Examples of High-Touch surfaces are:

• Special attention should be made to cleaning “high-touch surfaces” several times a day.

Answer 3

> light switches,

> chairs, and

> door knobs.

Question 4

The presence of just one living organism on an object would mean that the object is..?

Answer 4

Contaminated

Question 5

All ___ must be discarded without resheathing in a puncture resistant container that is readily accesssible.

Answer 5

Sharps