infection control

What is the term for all efforts made to prevent the spread of infection?

• incident report

• infection control

• hospital codes

• handwashing

What type of infection can be treated with antibiotics?

• bacterial

• viral

• fungal

• all of the above

Covid is caused by a ____________?

• bacteria

• fungus

• virus

• protozoa

The act of killing ALL microorganisms and their spores on a surface is called?

• sanitization

• disinfecting

• sterilization

• none of the above

If you are wearing gloves during patient contact, you do not need to wash your hands after treating the patient.

• True

• False

This should be used on ALL patients ALL of the time

• Transmission based precautions

• droplet precautions

• contact precautions

• standard precautions

Indirect contact is a type of infection transmission in which the pathogen travels directly from one host to another, such as person to person

• True

• False

You should wash your hands for :

• 5 seconds

• 15 seconds

• 20 seconds

• 60 seconds

Which is NOT considered a pathogen?

• cancer

• virus

• bacteria

• fungi

PPE is equipment worn by workers to protect them from serious workplace injuries or illness

• True

• False