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Infection Control: Understand terminology, precautions, procedures, practices, and programs. Identify relevant agencies.
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: Understand key elements and agencies involved.
Laboratory Safety: Identify general safety rules applicable in laboratories, patient rooms, and other patient areas.
Hazards and Safety Rules: Recognize hazards related to biological, chemical, electrical, fire, and radiation safety, and discuss response actions for hazardous incidents.
First Aid Recognition: Recognize symptoms needing first aid and summarize AHA CPR and ECC guidelines.
Personal Wellness: Describe the importance of personal wellness focusing on nutrition, rest, exercise, stress management, and back protection.

Infection Definition: Condition from a microbe invading, multiplying, and causing injury or disease.
- Microbes: Includes bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses.
- Pathogen: A microbe causing disease.
- Communicable Infections: Spread from person to person.
- CDC's Role: Investigate and control diseases.

Endemic: Diseases regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
Outbreak: Sudden increase beyond expected cases, leading to possible epidemic.
Epidemic: Rapid spreading disease affecting many in a defined area.
Pandemic: An epidemic that has spread across multiple countries or continents.

Nosocomial Infections: Infections acquired in hospitals.
Statistics: 1 in 31 hospital patients in the U.S. has at least one HAI.
Causes of HAIs: Infected personnel, patients, visitors, food, drugs, or equipment.

Key Examples:
- Clostridioides difficile
- MRSA
- Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)

Infectious Agent: Pathogenic microbe causing infection.
Reservoir: Where the microbe survives (humans, animals, equipment).
Exit Pathway: Route escaping the reservoir (secretion, blood).
Means of Transmission: Includes airborne, contact (direct/indirect), droplet, vector, and vehicle.
Entry Pathway: How the agent enters a susceptible host (skin, mucous membranes).
Susceptible Host: Individual with weakened ability to resist infection (affected by age, health).

Hand Hygiene: Essential for preventing infection spread.
Immunization: Protect individuals and communities from infectious diseases.
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Use gloves, gowns, masks to prevent exposure.
Isolation Procedures: Maintain separation of patients with communicable infections.

Goals: Protect everyone; break the chain of infection; monitor data on infections.
Components: Employee screening, immunization, evaluation, surveillance.

Asepsis: Being free of disease-causing microbes.
Techniques for Blood Collection: Proper hygiene, material management, disposal of contaminated equipment.

Purpose: Protect vulnerable patients and prevent infection spread.
Types of Precautions: Universal precautions for all patients, transmission-based for specific infections.

Biosafety: Understanding biohazard materials and safety symbols.
Chemical Safety: Guidelines for handling chemicals safely (PPE, labeling).
Fire Safety: Procedures for emergencies; understanding types of fires and appropriate extinguishing methods.
Radiation Safety: Knowledge of exposure principles - distance, shielding, time.

External Hemorrhage: Apply direct pressure; tourniquet as last resort.
Shock: Recognize symptoms; maintain airway and control bleeding.
Stroke Recognition: Use FAST (Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, Time to call 911).
CPR Guidelines: AHA recommendations; importance of immediate action to improve survival chances.

Holistic Approach: Incorporating physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and economic needs.
Nutrition: Emphasize a plant-based diet, avoiding processed foods.
Rest and Exercise: Importance of adequate sleep and fitness for overall health.
Stress Management: Address chronic stress and its implications on health.