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NUR170 Exam 2 Readings: Questions With SolutionsAsepsis Right Ans - The absence of illness-producing micro-organisms
Primary behavior of asepsis Right Ans - Hand hygiene
Medical asepsis Right Ans - Practices designed to REDUCE the number and
transfer of pathogens. Synonym for clean technique
Surgical asepsis Right Ans - Techniques used to DESTROY ALL(eradicate)
pathogenic organisms, also called sterile technique. Sterilization
Before every patient interaction... Right Ans - Nurses must preform hand
hygiene with either alcohol-based product or soap and water. Preform hand
hygiene between transitioning between tasks to prevent cross contamination.
Also preform hand hygiene every time you take off gloves and after coming
into contact with anything in a patient's room or contaminated items.
Personal hygiene practices Right Ans - -Hair clean and pulled back to
prevent contamination.
-Keep nails short and natural.
-Cover nose and mouth when sneezing or coughing. -Preform hand hygiene
immediately after.
Maintaining a sterile field Right Ans - -Only sterile items can be in a sterile
field
-The outer wrappings and one inch edges that contain sterile items are not
sterile
-Touch sterile to sterile
-Anything below waist level is contaminated
-Do not reach across a sterile field, hold items 6 inches above
-Do not turn back to sterile field
-Any sterile wrapper becomes non sterile when it comes in contact w/
moisture
, How do nurses break the chain of infection? Right Ans - Nurses use
infection control practices (medical asepsis, surgical asepsis, standard
precautions) to stop the spread of infection
Pathogens Right Ans - Micro-organisms or microbes that cause infections
(bacteria, viruses, fungi, prions, parasites)
Native immunity Right Ans - Restricts entry or immediately responds to a
foreign organism through the activation of phagocytic cells, complement, and
inflammation
Passive immunity Right Ans - Antibodies acquired from an outside source,
such as another person. No memory cells
Body's first line of defense Right Ans - Intact skin
Specific adaptive immunity Right Ans - allows the body to make antibodies
in response to a foreign organism (antigen)
Active immunity Right Ans - Antibodies develop after exposure to antigen
Chain of infection Right Ans - 1. Causative Agent
2. Reservoir
3. Portal of Exit
4. Mode of Transmission
5. Portal of Entry
6. Susceptible Host
Causative agent Right Ans - a pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus that
can cause an infection
Resivoir Right Ans - Environment where disease causing pathogen is found
on regular basis, can be human, animal or non-living (fomites)
Portal of exit Right Ans - A way for the infectious agent to escape from the
reservoir in which it has been growing
Mode of transportation Right Ans - specific ways in which agents travel
from reservoir to susceptible host
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