Infection Control Test Study Guide

What are the standard precautions?

Hand hygiene, PPE, Respiratory hygiene / cough etiquette, patient care equipment and instruments/devices, care of the equipment, and textiles and laundry

All the materials for the wrapping of an instrument of materials.

Two clothes, instrument, indicator tape, and black ink pen. Start folding from the bottom, side-to-side, then the top, repeat and make flaps.

Know the materials for the pouch

Pouch-permeable, indicator tape (put on the inside), instrument, and black ink pen to write documentation.

If some wraps are cloth, how do you clean them after use?

Place them in the autoclave machine for 60 minutes (20 to warm up, 20 to sterilize, and 20 to dry) at 250 degrees Fahrenheit.

Are there any chemicals that can sterilize instruments?

Yes

Number 1 disease that a patient can acquire from a non-sterile instrument?

Hepatitis

What is SDS?

Sanitation (wash and scrub hands), Disinfection (soak instruments for 20 mins), and Sterilization (putting instruments into the autoclave machine)

Autotrophs

Organism that creates its own food

Heterotrophs

Living things that cannot make its own food

Aerobes

Organism that grows with oxygen

Anaerobes

Organism that grows without oxygen

Bacteria

Microscopic organisms that is shaped like a nucleus

Fungi

Group of living organisms that belong in their own independent group

Parasites

Organisms that live inside a host organism and gets food from the host

Contamination

Making something dirty or unsafe by adding unwanted or harmful substances to it

Autoclave

High pressure and high heat machine to sterilize instruments

Susceptible

Having little resistance to a disease or infection

Resistant

Able to fight off or not be affected by something