INFECTION CONTROL: STANDARD PRECAUTIONS

In 1991, what organization established Bloodborne Pathogen Standards that MUST be followed by all healthcare facilities?

• the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

• Center of Disease Control (CDC)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

What is the acronym PPE?

• Personal Protective Equipment

• Personal Protective Eyewear

• Protective Patient Equipment

When must health care professionals use Standard Precautions? (Check all that apply)

• Contact with blood or any fluids that contain blood?

• Body secretions

• Tissue, urine, fecal and cell specimens

• Mucous Membranes

Airborne Precautions should be used (check all that apply)

• Instead of Standard Precautions

• In addition to Standard Precautions

• Patients infected with Hepatitis B

• Patients infected with tuberculosis, chickenpox,

• Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)

What is a N95 respirator mask? (Check all that apply)

• Mask that provides respiratory protection against Airborne Infections

• Mask used as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

• Should not be used for Airborne Precautions

Tags

NGSS.HS-ETS1-3

Droplet Precautions must be followed by patients suspected to have (Check all that apply)

• Influenza

• E. coli

• Mumps and other viral infections

Select the 3 main types of transmission-based precautions

• Standard Precautions

• Droplet

• Contact

• Airborne

Communicable disease can never be transmitted by contact with dirty linen. True or False

• True

• False

A parasitic microorganism is?

• A microorganism that can live outside of the cell of another living organism

• A microorganism that cannot live outside the cell of another living organism.

Endogenous infections originates

• Outside of the body

• Within the body