CNA Chapter 6: Infection Prevention

What is a communicable disease?

What is cross infection?

What is a Healthcare-associated infection (HAI)?

What is infection prevention?

What is a localized infection?

What is a microorganism?

What are pathogens?

What is reinfection?

What is resistance in the context of infection?

What is a systemic infection?

Sterilization means all microorganisms are destroyed, including those that form spores.

Medical asepsis means that a facility is completely free from all microorganisms.

A nursing assistant (NA) must wash his hands before leaving a dirty utility room.

Transmission is the process of removing pathogens from an object.

An object can be called clean if it has not been contaminated with pathogens.

Spore-forming organisms are killed by disinfection.

Clean and dirty equipment are normally stored in the same utility room.

What does the chain of infection describe?

How many links in the chain of infection must be broken to prevent infection?

List the six links in the chain of infection.

One reason that older people are at a greater risk for acquiring infections is:

Which factor associated with aging increases the risk of infection?

What is the abbreviation for the government agency that promotes public health and safety?

What are the two levels of precautions in the infection prevention system recommended by the CDC?

Standard precautions means treating all blood, bodily fluids, non-intact skin, and mucous membranes as if they were:

An NA cannot tell by looking at residents if they have a ______ disease.

An NA should wear a _______ and protective ________ when there's a chance of body fluid exposure.

Razor blades and other sharps should be disposed of in a _____ container for sharps.

An NA should never transfer _____ items or any kind of ______ from one room to another.

An NA should never place ______ items like bedpans on an overbed table.

When cleaning anything, the NA should move from the _______ to the ______ area.

Hand washing is the single most important method to reduce the spread of infection.

Bacteria can be removed from artificial nails through hand washing.

The use of hand lotion can prevent skin from cracking.

A nursing assistant must wash her hands every time she removes her gloves.

A nursing assistant must wash his hands after he blows his nose.

A nursing assistant does not need to wash her hands before obtaining clean linen from a cart.

When washing hands, the nursing assistant should use friction for no more than five seconds.

Using alcohol-based hand rubs means that nursing assistants do not need to wash their hands with soap and water.

What determines what type of personal protective equipment (PPE) must be worn for a specific task?

What step should a nursing assistant take directly after removing and discarding PPE?

If a gown becomes wet during care, what should the NA do?

Immediately after giving care, what should the NA do with his gloves?

Which of the following should be worn when it is likely that blood or body fluids may splash into the eyes?

Why are spills in a healthcare facility dangerous?

When something is spilled, what is the first step that an NA should take?

If an NA spills a substance on her body, what should she do?

If allowed, why is it important for a nursing assistant to spend time with a resident in isolation?

Which type of supplies are best for residents in isolation?

What items may be needed when setting up an isolation cart?

What is the abbreviation of the government agency that regulates the safety of workers in the U.S.?

What standard requires healthcare facilities to protect employees from blood borne health hazards?

What is an exposure incident?

What is an exposure control plan?

In the healthcare setting, contact with infected blood or bodily fluids is the most common way to be infected with a blood borne disease.

What vaccine must the employer provide for all employees after hire?

How does the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) affect the immune system?

What is one way that HIV is spread?

Hepatitis ___ and ____ are blood borne diseases that can cause death.

Hepatitis B can spread by contact with infected needles.

Multi drug resistant organisms (MDROs) are not a serious problem in healthcare facilities.

Methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is mostly spread by direct physical contact with infected people.

Proper hand hygiene can help prevent the spread of vancomycin resistant enterococcus.

The bacteria enterococci often cause problems in healthy people.

Both hand rubs and washing hands with soap and water are considered equally effective when dealing with C. Difficile.

The overuse of antibiotics may alter the normal intestinal flora and increase the risk of developing C. Difficile diarrhea.

There is no test that can diagnose C. Difficile.

Carbapenem resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) is most often spread through direct contact with an infected person.

To help protect against the spread of the flu, a person should maintain a distance of at least two feet from an infected person.

Moro iris is not a type of contagious virus.