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NUR 306 EXAM 1 Question and answers 100% correct Medical asepsis (clean technique) - correct answer reducing the # of disease-causing agents and their spread Surgical asepsis - correct answer absence of all microorganisms within any type of procedure Techniques to maintain medical ase...

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NUR 306 EXAM 1 Question and answers
100% correct
Medical asepsis (clean technique) - correct answer ✔reducing the # of
disease-causing agents and their spread


Surgical asepsis - correct answer ✔absence of all microorganisms within any
type of procedure


Techniques to maintain medical asepsis - correct answer ✔Good hand
hygiene, recognizing and breaking the chain of infection, the use of PPE's,
respiratory couch and etiquette (for both the patient and the nurse), patient
placement (single room if patient is @ increased risk or transmitting or
acquiring infection, does not do hygiene, likely to contaminate the
environment, or at increased risk of adverse reaction)


Good hand hygiene - correct answer ✔The most effective measure to
prevent the spread of infection.
Wash when visibly soiled, when arriving/leaving care unit, before direct
contact w/ patient, before donning and after doffing gloves, after contact with
patients intact skin, after contact with body fluids, mucous membrane or, non-
intact skin, wound dressings, when moving from contaminated site of body to
clean site, before and after contact with objects and equipment in the patient's
immediate vicinity, before eating and after using the restroom, before and
after touching your face and hair.


infection cycle - correct answer ✔infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit,
mode of transmission, portal of entry and susceptible host.

, infectious agent (chain of infection) - correct answer ✔microorganism.
normal flora. transient flora. resident flora. pathogens (microorganisms
capable of causing disease).
Normal flora can become pathogenic if enters body regions not supposed to
inhabit.


Virulence - correct answer ✔organisms' ability to cause harm
Ability to survive in host environment
# organisms
Ability of the host's defenses to prevent infection


reservoir - correct answer ✔source of infection: place where pathogens
survivors and multiply. Human body is most common reservoir, animals,
insects, and soil, water, food, environmental surfaces too e.g., contaminated
water


Nutrients, moisture, temperature, oxygen, PH and Electrolytes - correct
answer ✔Nutrients: Bacteria can rapidly multiply in food left at room temp.
Moisture: Pathogens require moisture for survival e.g., moisture in wounds,
genitourinary tract, throat, and airways.
Temperature: For most pathogens, the ideal temperature for existence is 95ºF
thats whatever in response to infection can kill or inhibit infection
PH and Electrolytes: to live in humans pathogens need the body's precise
balance of moisture, sugars, pH (acidity), and electrolytes. Prefer pH 5-8.
Can't survive in the stomach but when antacids then they can.
light: dark environments


portal of exit - correct answer ✔contained reservoir is only a potential source
for infection, to spread a pathogen must exit the reservoir. portal for ppl is
body fluids (blood, mucous, saliva, breast milk, urine, feces, vomit, semen, or
others).

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