OSHA part 1

exposure

engineering

personal protective equipment

vaccines

Methods OSHA uses to minimize Hazards:

- _____________ control plan

- _________________ controls

- work practice controls

- _________________ ____________ _____________ (PPE)

- training

- medical surveyance

- providing available ____________ to workers

- signs and labels

OSHA

What is the federal agency with responsibility for protecting the health and safety of workers in private an in some public facilities?

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

What does OSHA stand for?

contact, droplet, or airborne

What are the 3 primary routes of infectious disease transmission in the U.S. Healthcare settings?

airborne (breathing)

chicken pox (varicella), disseminated herpes zoster, measles, TB

wearing N95 mask

What is the proper PPE for airborne?

droplet (cough, sneezing)

pertussis, influenza (flu), pneumonia

surgical mask at all times

What is the PPE for droplet?

contact (touch)

MRSA, Cdiff, Noravirus

gloves and gown worn at all times

What is the PPE for contact?

Cdiff

What is a bacteria that causes inflammation in the colon?

norovirus

What is very contagious and causes pain in the intestine and stomach?

TB

What is a serious infectious bacterial disease that mainly affects the lungs?

MRSA

What is a bacteria that is staff-resistant to antibiotics?

OSHA blood-borne pathogens standard

What OSHA standard provides protection of workers from exposures to blood and body fluids that may contain bloodborne infections?

OSHA's Personal Protective Equipment Standard and Respiratory Protection Standard

What OSHA standard provides protection for workers when exposed to contact, droplet, and airborne transmissible infectious agents?

OSHA's TB compliance directive

What OSHA standard protects workers against exposure to TB through enforcement of existing applicable OSHA standards?

n95 mask

Most TB patients wear which piece of PPE?

Whistleblower Protection Act

What is a program that provides protection from workplace retaliation so that employers cannot take an adverse actions against workers for reporting unsafe work conditions?

patient care

Standard precautions are used for ______________ ___________

true

Standard precautions are used for patient care. T or F

standard precautions

What are based on a risk assessment and make use of common-sense practices and personal protective equipment use that protect healthcare providers from infection from patient to patient?

infectious

Blood and body fluids from all patients must be treated as though potentially _____________________

hand hygiene

_______________ hygiene is very important

arm or sleeve

When coughing, cough into your ________ or _____________

PPE

Use _______ whenever there is an expectation of possible exposure to infectious material

true

You must wipe down and clean the area appropriately after every patient. T or F

no

Should you recap a needle after it has been used?

sharps and needles

____________ and ____________ have their own proper container

hepatitis B (HBV)

What is a pathogenic, bloodborne virus that can cause potentially life-threatening liver disease in humans?

inflammation of the liver

Hepatitis deals with ______________ of the ________

10

Usually after _____ years, you would have to get a hep B titer

mild or chronic illness

cirrhosis of the liver

liver cancer

death due to liver failure

HBV may result in:

- _______ or _____________ illness

- ___________ of the liver

- liver ___________

- ________ due to liver failure

fatigue

anorexia (weight loss)

low grade fever

nausea

vomiting

abdominal pain

dark urine

light stool

joint pain

jaundice

What are some signs and symptoms of HBV?

recombinant dna

plasma

Hepatitis B vaccine can be prepared by ___________________ _______ technology or from the _________ of patients who are carriers of the hepatitis B virus

antibodies

This introduction of this antigen stimulates the production of ____________________ against the virus, thereby providing protection