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Annual Competency Exam Questions With Verified Answers. List three blood borne pathogens - answerHIV Hepatitis B Hepatitis C What is hepatitis? - answerInflammation of the liver How is hep a transmitted? - answerContaminated food and oral-fecal route How is hep B and C transmitted? - answerE...

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List three blood borne pathogens - answer✔HIV
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C

What is hepatitis? - answer✔Inflammation of the liver

How is hep a transmitted? - answer✔Contaminated food and oral-fecal route

How is hep B and C transmitted? - answer✔Exposure to blood and body fluids of an infected
person

How long can hep b live on surfaces for? - answer✔Seven days

When caring for HBV patients staff should NOT - answer✔Take care of hepatitis susceptible
patients on the same shift at the same time

Why do we dialyze hep c in the clinical area and not in isolation? - answer✔Not as contagious as
hep B

What blood test indicates infection with Hep B? - answer✔HbsAg
Indicates viral presence
Tests for the antigen

What blood test indicates immunity against hep b? - answer✔HbsAb
Indicates presence of immunity

What vaccine provides long term immunity to hep b? - answer✔Recombivax
Engerix

S/S of TB - answer✔Night sweats
Productive, persistent cought

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Unexplained weight loss
Chills
Fever
Blood tinged sputum

How is TB spread? - answer✔Droplet

What can live outside of the body for seven days? How are they spread? - answer✔MRSA
VRE
Spread through contaminated hands of health care workers

What assures that MRSA patients are no longer actively infected? - answer✔Three consecutive
cultures come back negative

Precautions to take when caring for MRSA/VRE? - answer✔Contact

How to seat VRE patients - answer✔In the same cohort as people with the same bacteria

How long should you wash your hands for? With alcohol? - answer✔40-60 seconds soap and
water
20-30 seconds alcohol

What is urea? - answer✔A by product of protein metabolism

What is creatine? - answer✔A by product of muscle metabolism

What is uric acid? - answer✔Occurs naturally in the human body as a result of the metabolism of
purine
Purine is from dietary intake or the breakdown of the bodies own cells

What does the nephron do? - answer✔Filters blood to form urine

What performs the first step in filtering blood? - answer✔The glomerulus

Which of the functions of healthy kidneys can be replaced by dialysis? - answer✔Removal of
waste products
Regulation of fluid balance

What is renin? - answer✔Regulates blood pressure
Sodium and potassium balance

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