Safety Infection Control And Standard Precautions Key Terms

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Airborne precautions:

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Formerly called respiratory isolation, these additional safety precautions are applied to certain diseases such as tuberculosis

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Anoxia

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Partial or complete absence of oxygen from inspired gases, artificial blood, or tissue.

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Antiseptics

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Substances that inhibit the growth of organisms and living tissue.

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Asepsis

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The state of being free or pathogenic microorganisms.

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Bloodborne pathogen

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Any microorganism in the blood or body fluids that can cause illness and disease

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Aseptic techniques

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Procedures that are performed under sterile conditions.

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Carcinogenic

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Able to cause cancer or make it likely to develop

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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

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An emergency procedure commonly performed on patients who are in cardiac or respiratory arrest

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Carrier

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An individual with no overt disease who Harbors infectious organisms

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Caustic

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Capable of burning corroding or destroying living tissue

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Centrifuge

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A piece of laboratory equipment used to "spin" substances such as blood samples to separate out various elements that they contain

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Chain of Infection

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The method of infection proliferation; it includes and in infectious agent, a reserver, a portable of exit, a mode of transmission, a portal of entry, and susceptible host

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Communicable disease

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An infectious disease that is able to be transmitted between individuals because of a replicating agent (rather than toxin)

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Contact precautions

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Procedures that reduce the risk of transmission or serious disease through direct or indirect physical contact

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Disinfectants

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Substances that can destroy microorganisms from non-living objects

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Double bagging

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The use of two trash bags for disposing of waste from patient rooms (usually from patients who are in isolation)

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Droplet precautions

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Procedures used to reduce the transmission of diseases via droplets that are expelled during sneezing coughing or talking these diseases include meningitis, pertussis pneumonia, rubella

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Fomites

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An imminent objects that may transmit infectious organisms or infectious agents such as sinks toilets door knobs Lennon's glasses and Phlebotomy supplies

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Hazcom

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The OSHA Hazard communication standard which requires chemical manufacturers to Supply material safety data sheets (MSDs) for their chemicals

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Infection control programs

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Tidelines address community-acquired in healthcare-associated infections including their monitoring, reporting, required isolation, procedures, education, and management

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Intensive Care Unit

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A specialized treatment area for critically ill patients those needing additional monitoring and those who are more susceptible to infections

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Isolation procedures

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Methods used to protect healthcare workers from patients with certain infectious diseases usually divided into categories specific and disease specific types

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Material safety data sheets (MSDSs)

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Required paperwork about all chemicals used in a workplace Atlas Chemical precautionary and emergency exposure information

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Mode of transmission

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The method by which pathogenic agents are transmitted

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Nosocomial infections

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Healthcare acquired infections Loews acquired after being admitted into a health facility

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Protective reverse isolation

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Precautionary methods designed to protect patients who may be highly susceptible to infections

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Race rescue alert confine extinguish

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A system designed to help healthcare workers remember how to respond when a fire emergency occurs

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Source

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The origin of an infection

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Standard precautions

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Safeguards to remember the risk of transmission of microorganisms these precautions are more comprehensive than the universal precautions applying to patients body fluids non-intact skin and mucous membranes and include barrier protection and hygiene and proper use and disposal of needles and other sharps

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Susceptible host

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A person who lacks resistance to an agent and is vulnerable to Contracting a disease

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Teratogenic

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Able to cause birth defects in an embryo or fetus

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Transmission based precautions

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A set of procedures designed to prevent the communication of infectious diseases

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Universal precautions

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Approaches to infection control designed to prevent the transmission of blood-borne diseases