Hand Hygiene and Chain of Infection Quiz

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In the 'Five Moments for Hand Hygiene', when does the 'first moment' occur?

  • As near to the patient as possible within the patient zone
  • Before you start to gather the equipment that you need to take to the patient’s bedside
  • Before you put on personal protective equipment (i.e. gloves/aprons)
  • After patient contact/on leaving the point of care (correct)

What is the correct order of the Chain of Infection?

  • Reservoir/source; organism; susceptible patient; route of exit; mode of transmission; route of entry
  • Susceptible patient; organism; reservoir/source; mode of transmission; route of exit; route of entry
  • Susceptible patient; route of exit; organism; reservoir/source; mode of transmission; route of entry
  • Organism; reservoir/source; route of exit; mode of transmission; route of entry; susceptible patient (correct)

What must standard precautions be used for?

  • To be used when caring for patients with MRSA
  • Used when dealing with spillages of blood or bodily fluids
  • Only applicable if the patient has a blood borne virus infection
  • Applied to all patients all of the time (correct)

Which is the most important risk factor(s) for the development of a healthcare associated infection in the older person?

<p>Presence of multiple chronic medical conditions (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most common opportunistic infection of people with AIDS?

<p>pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a different person for a different purpose?

<p>Secondary data (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What would happen if instead of using an ANOVA to compare 10 groups, you performed multiple t-tests?

<p>Making multiple comparisons with a t-test increases the probability of making a Type I error (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

An item that directs participants to different follow-up questions depending on their response is called a.____________

<p>Contingency question (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The length of time they are in hospital for and the number of times that they move wards depend on:

<p>The presence of an invasive indwelling device and the degree of any underlying illness (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Factor analysis refers to:

<p>A class of procedures primarily used for data reduction and summarization (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

.Which of the following would generally require the largest sample size?

<p>Cluster sampling (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

.What should happen to gloves and aprons after use?

<p><strong>Are single use items and must be worn for one task/episode of care only</strong> (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of infection is most common among people with AIDS?

<p><strong>Opportunistic infections</strong> (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the 'Five Moments for Hand Hygiene', when does the 'first moment' occur?

<p>After patient contact/on leaving the point of care (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the correct order of the Chain of Infection?

<p>Organism; reservoir/source; route of exit; mode of transmission; route of entry; susceptible patient (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What must standard precautions be used for?

<p>Applied to all patients all of the time (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

When is the 'first moment' in the 'Five Moments for Hand Hygiene' NOT applicable?

<p>Before patient contact/entering the patient zone (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a common misconception about standard precautions?

<p>Applied based on the length of time a patient spends in a hospital (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a significant risk factor for the development of a healthcare associated infection in older persons?

<p>&quot;Having multiple comorbidities (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What should happen to gloves and aprons after use?

<p>They are single-use items and must be worn for one task/episode of care only (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following terms best describes data that were originally collected at an earlier time by a different person for a different purpose?

<p>Secondary data (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most common opportunistic infection of people with AIDS?

<p>Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Factor analysis is a technique used to reduce a large number of variables into fewer numbers of factors. This technique extracts maximum common variance from all variables and puts them into a common score. What does factor analysis refer to?

<p>Class of procedures primarily used for data reduction and summarization (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following study designs do most surveillance systems use?

<p>Serial cross-sectional (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following would generally require the largest sample size?

<p>Cluster sampling (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In the context of comparing 10 groups, what would happen if instead of using an ANOVA, multiple t-tests were performed?

<p>Making multiple comparisons with a t-test increases the probability of making a Type I error (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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