Concepts Of Pta Quiz 1

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Caregiver

Back 1

any individual providing care

Front 2

Patient/Client/Consumer

Back 2

Any individual receiving care

Front 3

Primary Caregiver

Back 3

The individual that is primarily responsible for giving care (often legally documented)

-"power of attorney"

Front 4

Intervention

Back 4

any treatment procedure

Front 5

Interprofessional collaboration

Back 5

between professions working for best outcome for patient

Front 6

Intraprofessional Collaboration

Back 6

working together within the same profession

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Health Insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 (HIPAA)

Back 7

-Federal privacy protection for individually identifiable health information

-Allows patient more access to medical records and allow Pt to limit access to others

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Protected Health Information

Back 8

any form of health information of a person, that is written or orally communicated (in media form)

Front 9

Notice of privacy practice

Back 9

give notice to the patient how the information (PHI) will be used and disclosed

- given at 1st date of service

Front 10

Identifiable information (PHI): past or present

Back 10

-demographic or date related to medical condition

-provision of health care

-payment for health care

Front 11

Examples of PHI

Back 11

Name/Address/ SSN/ DOB etc

Front 12

Home program

Back 12

to reinforce an activity or improve an ability before the next treatment

Front 13

Caregiver Responsibility

Back 13

Safety of patient is 1st at all times

-secure the area, equipment, personnel before providing the intervention

Front 14

Patient differences

Back 14

Cultural diversity/ gender/ physiological difference with age

Front 15

Patient and Family education

Back 15

provide accurate response without implying a guarantee or promise that a specific outcome with be achieved.

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Material Safety Data Sheet

Back 16

MSDS - manual containing info about every chemical or product in that facility

- refer to this is exposed for required response

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Microorganism

Back 17

any living organism that can cause a disease

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Pathogen

Back 18

a microorganism that causes disease

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sepsis

Back 19

presence of a pathogenic organism in the blood or tissue

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asepsis

Back 20

absence of pathogenic organism that causes disease

Front 21

sterile

Back 21

containing NO microorganism. free from germs

Front 22

contaminate

Back 22

unclean or unsterile surface or environment

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Cross-contamination

Back 23

transfer of pathogen from a contaminated surface to an otherwise clean surface

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decontaminate

Back 24

use of physical or chemical means to remove or destroy pathogens and prevent transmission of infectious particles

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disinfection

Back 25

destroy or remove pathogenic organisms

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nosocomial infection

Back 26

infection originating in the hospital

-"hospital acquired infection"

- HAI

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Infection Requirements

Back 27

1.Host/resevoir

2.Exit from host

3. vehicle of transmission

4.entrance portal

5.susceptible host

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host/resevoir

Back 28

place where microorganism can grow and reproduce

-animal or human

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exit from host

Back 29

nose/mouth/wound/urine/blood/ feces

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vehicle of transmission

Back 30

Mode of transportation

1. contact transmission

2.airborne transmission

3.droplet

4.common vehicle transmission

5. vectorborne

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Entrance portal

Back 31

nose/mouth/sound/ non-intact skin/ intestinal tract

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susceptible host

Back 32

animal or human immunocompromised or suppressed

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Contact transmission

Back 33

organism transferred skin to skin, mucous membrane to mucous membrane through touching

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direct contact

Back 34

touching, sex, biting, kissing

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indirect contact

Back 35

touching an inanimate object that has been touched

Front 36

airborne transmission

Back 36

air that is inhaled from another respiratory system

-very small

- i.e. TB/ chickenpox

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droplet

Back 37

large water particles from respiratory system get coughed up/out or with sneezing

-only for short distances (3 feet or less)

Front 38

common vehicle transmission

Back 38

through common source (such as contaminated food, IV fluid/medications, water)

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vectorborne

Back 39

carried via insect (I.e. Lyme disease)

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How to break infection cycle

Back 40

1.Standard precautions

2. transmission based precautions

3. contact precautions

4.Droplet precautions

5.Airborne precautions

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Center for disease control(CDC)

Back 41

researches and determine the necessary requirements to prevent spreading infections