3.01 Infection Control
1. Define pathogens.
2. What does infection disrupt in the body functions when
infection occurs?
3. Describe a local infection.
4. Describe a systemic infection.
5. What do germs need to survive?
6. Define causative agent in the chain of infection.
7. Define reservoir in chain of infection.
8. Why are the elderly at more of a risk for infection?
9. Define sterilization.
10.
Define disinfection.
11.
Define standard precautions.
12.
When do you wash your hands? Name all times.
13.
When are hands considered clean with hand rub
method?
14.
What temp of water do you use to clean nondisposable equipment including thermometers?
15.
What patients are standard precautions used for?
16.
If you are irrigating a wound what PPE would you
wear?
17.
What do you do with needles after use?
18.
How long does disinfectant have to be applied to a
spill area?
19.
How do you carry soiled linen?
20.
Hep A,B,C, which is not blood borne?
21.
What is included in a bloodborne pathogen
exposure plan?
22.
What kind of mask do you wear when dealing with
a TB patient?
23.
What kinds of disease require droplet
precautions?
24.
What kinds of disease require airborne
precautions?
25.
If you have a patient on contact precautions and
they need a chest x-ray how is this done?
26.
What is your number one defense against disease
when intact?
27.
Define exogenous infection.
28.
Define endogenous infection.
29.
What is a common vehicle in the chain of
infection?
30.
What is a fomite?
31.
What is needed to transport a patient in airborne
precautions?
32.
What are the SxS of HIV infection?
33.
What does sterilization kill?
34.
Is environmental cleaning part of standard
precautions?