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©PREP4EXAMS@2024 [REAL EXAM DUMPS] Tuesday, July 23, 2024 10:52 AMChapter 7: Asepsis and Infection Control Exam Study Guide
The nurse suspects that a patient has an infection. What lab value would the nurse assess to help
confirm the suspicion. - ✔️✔️WBC or white blood cell count is the laboratory value that indicates
that there is some type of infection going on.
Perform proper hand hygiene before and after caring for a patient. - ✔️✔️Health care providers
today need to be aware that health care-associated infections are a serious problem. What is the
most effective way to prevent health care-associated infections?
"Lipping" of the bottle with its solution. - ✔️✔️During surgery, the physician requests more sterile
water. What action must the nurse perform before pouring the solution into the sterile container?
Standard and Contact Precautions - ✔️✔️The nurse is caring for a patient with a wound infection
of the lower extremity. Which types of precaution would the nurse use when taking care of this
patient?
Risk for social isolation. - ✔️✔️A patient in contact isolation has a minimal amount of visitors,
and the health care staff enters only when patient care is being performed. Based on this
information, which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate for this patient?
Away from the nurse. - ✔️✔️A circulating nurse opens sterile packages while in the operating
room. What is the most appropriate way to create a sterile field when opening the sterile
package's top triangle?
A health care worker's hands, hospital equipment, or instruments. - ✔️✔️There are many methods
of transmission of infection. Which is the best example of a vehicle of transmission?
Health care-associated - ✔️✔️Your patient was admitted to the hospital 3 days ago with cardiac
problems and now has bacterial pneumonia. This is an example of what type of infection?
N-95 respirator - ✔️✔️Today the nurse is assigned to care for a patient who has tuberculosis. What
equipment should the nurse routinely use when caring for this patient?
Antiseptic - ✔️✔️A substance that tends to inhibit the growth and reproduction of microorganisms
and may be used on humans
Asepsis - ✔️✔️The absence of pathogenic microorganisms
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Vector - ✔️✔️A person or animal that does not become ill but harbors and spreads an organism,
causing disease in others
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - ✔️✔️Provides facilities and services for
investigation, prevention, and control of diseases
Contamination - ✔️✔️A condition of being soiled, stained, touched by, or otherwise exposed to
harmful agents, which makes an object potentially unsafe for use.
disinfection - ✔️✔️The use of a chemical that can be applied to objects to destroy microorganisms.
Endogenous - ✔️✔️Growing within the body; example: microorganisms in fecal material that are
transferred to to skin by hands and infect a wound
Exogenous - ✔️✔️Growing outside the body; example: infection transmitted to the patient by a
health care worker
Fomite - ✔️✔️When the vehicle is an inanimate (non-living) object
Health care-associated infection - ✔️✔️Infections that were previously referred to as nosocomial
infections. The infection must develop at least 48 hours after hospitalization or contact with
another type of health care facility.
Host - ✔️✔️An organism in which another organism is nourished and harbored
Infection prevention and control - ✔️✔️The implementation of policies and procedures n hospitals
and other health care facilities to minimize the spread of health care-associated or community-
acquired infections to patients and other staff members.
Medical asepsis - ✔️✔️Techniques that inhibit the growth and transmission of pathogenic
microorganisms. (Clean technique)
Microorganisms - ✔️✔️Tiny, usually microscopic, entities capable of carrying on living proceses
Reservoir - ✔️✔️Any natural habitat of a microorganisms that promotes growth and reproduction;
include humans, animals, and environmental sources
Spore - ✔️✔️A specialized structure formed by some bacteria
Standard precautions - ✔️✔️Universal blood and body fluid precautions and universal precautions
incorporated into one standard set of guidelines.
Sterilization - ✔️✔️Methods used to kill all microorganisms, including spores. The two methods
are physical and chemical
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