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What does PPE stand for? |
Personal Protection Equipment |
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What is a fomite? |
Contact with non-living surface that has been contaminated |
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What is standard precaution? |
the safest way to avoid inflecting yourself or spreading infection |
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Standard precaution includes: |
hand hygiene, use of PPE, respitory hygiene and cough etiquette, safe injection practices, safe handling of contaminated equipment or surfaces |
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the most effective way to prevent infection is.. |
hand washing with soap and water
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if hands have become contaminated with blood: |
use a anti-microbial soap to wash, then coat hands in ethyl alcohol, then was with anti-microbial soap once more
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PPE includes: |
gloves, safety glasses/eyeware, surgical masks or N95, gowns, face shields, shoes |
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What goes in the sharps or biohazard containers? |
anything sharp that can puncture someone, like needles and hub, glass slides, blood and glass, lancets |
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What is infectious waste? |
any piece of equipment exposed to a patients blood and could cause infection |
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what is an infection? |
the invasion of a host orgamisims body tissue by disease-causing organisim, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissue to the organisim and the toxis they produce |
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Laboratory acquired infection |
when a phlebotomist inadvertantly contracts an illness by handling specimens or working in direct contact with unwell patients |
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Isolation is required when: |
a patient is at increased risk of infection or poses an increased risk of infection to others. Isolation is protection. |
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Name all the types of Isolation and the PPE required |
1:Complete isolation:mask and gloves 2: Droplet isolation: mask and gloves 3: blood and body fluid precaution: always wear gloves 4:Respitory Isolation: mask or N95 5:Contact isolation: gloves 6:Reverse isolation: follow signage |
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what is Nosocomial |
a hospital aquired infection |
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The FDA: OSHA: CDC |
Regulates Drugs and Food Protects workers Research and Recommend |
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What can happen if a tourniquet is left on a patients arm too long? |
it can cause hemoconcentraded or a hemolyzed sample |
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The larger the number |
the smaller the needle |
