Deck 5: Protecting Patients and Ourselves

Question 1

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Select the appropriate interventions for a patient on airborne precautions.

A) standard precautions
B) private room, or semi-private room with a patient with the same diagnosis
C) gloves and gown
D) surgical mask

Answer 1

standard precautions
gloves and gown

Question 2

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Select the interventions indicated for use with a patient on contact precautions.

A) standard precautions
B) sharing patient equipment only with patients with similar symptoms
C) private room if possible
D) gloves and gowns for providers and visitors

Answer 2

standard precautions
private room if possible
gloves and gowns for providers and visitors

Question 3

Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
A surgical instrument contaminated with norovirus is used on another patient and as a result transmits the illness. The instrument can be referred to as a __________.

Answer 3

fomite

Question 4

Select the best response to the question. Who is covered by the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard?

A) all nurses and ancillary clinical staff
B) all hospital employees
C) all clinical workers handling blood
D) all employees who may come in contact with blood and other infected materials as part of their job duties

Question 5

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  You are preparing to irrigate (clean) a wound with sterile water where splashing is likely. Which personal protective equipment should you use?

A) gloves
B) gowns
C) face shield
D) scrub cap

Question 6

Select the best response to the question. Lyme disease, an illness spread by ticks, is an example of:

A) common vehicle transmission.
B) biological vector transmission.
C) transmission by direct contact.
D) mechanical vector transmission.

Question 7

Select the best response to the question. Which of the following is NOT a safe injection practice?

A) placing a used syringe on the patient ' s bedside table
B) performing hand hygiene before and after administering an injection
C) placing a used syringe immediately in a sharps container
D) donning gloves prior to giving the injection

Question 8

Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
Some people are ___________ of a disease and do not display any signs and symptoms of the disease.

Question 9

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  A patient has come to your clinic with a fever, productive cough, and frequent sneezing. Which of the following interventions are indicated?

A) Hand hygiene before and after patient contact.
B) Moving the patient immediately to an empty exam room if possible.
C) Implementing droplet precautions.
D) Removing tissue boxes from the waiting area so they don ' t become contaminated.

Question 10

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Select the appropriate interventions needed for droplet precautions for a patient diagnosed with influenza who has a productive cough and is sneezing frequently.

A) standard precautions
B) surgical mask
C) negative pressure room
D) gown and goggles or face shield

Question 11

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Which of the following are possible portals of entry for infectious agents?

A) nasal passages
B) mouth
C) intact skin
D) urethra

Question 12

Select the best response to the question. What is an exposure incident?

A) a mouth, eye, mucous membrane, or needlestick/sharps injury and exposure to blood or other bodily secretions
B) a patient's blood or bodily fluids collected by a health care worker
C) a situation where a worker cleans a contaminated device or area
D) a clinical situation where transmission-based precautions are indicated

Question 13

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Which of the following statements are true regarding hand hygiene?

A) It should be performed as quickly as possible.
B) It should be performed with warm water.
C) It reduces the risk of health care-associated infections.
D) It is part of standard precautions.

Question 14

Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
When the pathogen is located on the outside of the vector ' s body, the type of vector transmission is _________________.

Question 15

Select the best response to the question. Hand hygiene using soap and water is indicated in which of the following situations?

A) after giving an intramuscular injection to a patient
B) after treating a patient suspected of having a  C. difficile  infection
C) before inserting a foley (urinary) catheter
D) before donning sterile gloves

Question 16

Select the best response to the question. Several patients come to the emergency department with abdominal pain and diarrhea after eating pasta salad at a family picnic. What type of pathogen transmission has occurred?

A) airborne
B) direct contact
C) vector
D) common vehicle

Question 17

Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
Organisms that carry a disease agent to the host are referred to as _______________.

Question 18

Select the best response to the question. Hand hygiene with an alcohol-based hand rub is indicated in which of the following situations?

A) after using the restroom
B) after eating
C) if hands are visibly soiled
D) before repositioning a patient in bed

Question 19

Fill in the blanks to complete the following statements.
The minimum infection prevention standards that should be applied to all patients in any health care setting are referred to as _____________ precautions.

Question 20

Identify all answer choices that best complete the question.  Which of the following are examples of pathogens being spread through direct contact?

A) using a remote control after someone who has the flu has used it
B) kissing someone who has mononucleosis
C) a child licking a toy after another sick child has handled it
D) a patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease

Question 21

Pathogens spread via airborne transmission are fragile and do not survive for long periods of time outside the body.

Question 22

The vector does not have to show signs and symptoms of a disease to be able to spread it to a human.

Question 23

Only humans can be reservoirs of infection.

Question 24

Place the steps for proper hand washing in the correct order.  1: Wet hands and apply soap.  , 2: Tear off the paper towel.  , 3: Remove all jewelry.  , 4: Rinse with water.

A) 1, 2, 4, 3
B) 3, 4, 1, 2
C) 3, 4, 2, 1
D) 2, 4, 1, 3
E) 3, 2, 4, 1

Question 25

Resident flora are easily removed by hand hygiene.