Asepsis and Infection Control | Questions & Answers (100 %Score) Latest Updated
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1. A young adult patient is admitted to a medical unit with the diagnosis of hepatitis A and placed in
contact precautions. What is the primary goal of this action?
1. To prevent transmission of infectious microorganisms
2. To control the environment of the patient during hospitalization
3. To protect the patient from infectious microorganisms
4. To protect only the family from the transmission of the disease - 1. To prevent transmission of
infectious microorganisms
2. The nurse is working in a clinical medical area with a census of 15. Each patient has a different illness.
When planning care, the nurse recognizes which as the most important action to provide protection to
each patient from health care-associated infections?
1. Wearing a gown
2. Placing each patient in isolation
3. Hand hygiene
4. Wearing gloves - 3. Hand hygiene
3. The nurse is caring for the patient in isolation and plans to wear latex gloves. Which is an important
consideration?
1. Assess the patient and the patient's record for potential latex allergy
2. Vinyl gloves actually provide higher barrier protection than latex
3. The cost of latex gloves is significantly higher than that of synthetic gloves
4. Latex gloves are so reliable as barriers that hand hygiene is not required. - 1. Assess the patient and
the patient's record for potential latex allergy
4. The nurse is speaking with a patient about the need to prevent infection. The nurse recognizes the
patient understands proper hand hygiene when the patient makes what statement?
,1."the water i wash my hands with should be as hot as i can tolerate to kill all of the germs on my skin."
2. " if there isn't time to completely wash my hands, it will be all right to rinse them quickly in want
water."
3. "After washing my hands with soap for at least 20 seconds, i will rinse them throughly under running
water."
4. "I will put soap into a basin of warm water, lather my hands for 15 seconds,m and then rinse them in
the basin." - 3. "After washing my hands with soap for at least 20 seconds, i will rinse them throughly
under running water."
5. The nursing instructor is discussing the chain of infection to a group of student nurses. What is the
most important information about identifying the chain of infection for the health care provider?
1. Understating of the chain of infection allows for tests to be performed to assess resistance to
communicable diseases.
2. Recognition of the chain of infection provides information about which patients will most benefit
from isolation precautions
3. The need for antibiotic therapy can be determined by assessing the chain of infection
4. Points at which the infection can be stopped or prevented can be located by identifying the chains of
infection - 4. Points at which the infection can be stopped or prevented can be located by identifying the
chains of infection
6. A patient in isolation is experiencing signs of social deprivation. Which intervention by the nurse is
appropriate?
1. Allow visitors to remove masks while in the patient's room
2. Leave the door of the negative - pressure room open slightly
3. Remind the patient that isolation is for his or her own benefit
4. Set specific times when the nurse will return to the patient's room - 4. Set specific times when the
nurse will return to the patient's room
7. A middle-aged client is admitted to the hospital with cellulitis of the right foot. Three days later, the
patient develops bacterial pneumonia. How would the patient's bacterial pneumonia be classified?
, 1. Acute primary
2. Health care - associated
3. Interstitial
4. Mycoplasmic - 2. Health care - associated
8. The student is reviewing sterile technique. When using the technique, the student nurse remembers
to hold sterile objects in which location?
1. Close to shoulder level
2. Just below waist level
3. Over the patient's bed
4. Above waist level - 4. Above waist level
9. The nurse is planning care for several patients undergoing procedures. For which procedure will the
nurse gather supplies to implement surgical asepsis? (Select all that apply)
1. Inserting an IV line
2. Performing perineal care
3. Performing oral care
4. Obtaining a sputum specimen
5. Inserting an indwelling catheter - 1. Inserting an IV line
5. Inserting an indwelling catheter
10. The nurse is performing a surgical hand scrub. During a surgical hand scrub, how are the hands to be
held?
1. Above the elbows
2. With the fingers pointing downward
3. Whichever way is convenient
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