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Disinfection kills
most microorganisms but not spores
everything
viruses
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What is an opportunistic infection?
Touching an infected counter
infections caused by an infected animal/insect injuring you
Breathing the same air as a COVID patient
infections occur when body's defenses are weakened
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How does athletes foot spread?
randomly
eating raw meat
playing sports
contact with a contanminated object/person
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What does the portal of entry refer to?
When a pathogen enters a susceptible host
When a pathogen enters the reservoir
When a pathogen leaves a susceptible host
When a pathogen enters a mode of transmission
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portal of exit
open wound
Washinh your hands
How infectious agents leave the body
solids leaving the body
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Asepsis
Germ-free
Full of germs
balls of fire
Not being equal
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What is Tuberculosis?
A sexually transmitted disease
A mosquito-borne parasite
A nutritional deficiency that stunts growth
A contagious disease mainly affecting the lungs .
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Airborne Precautions
Hat
Boots
N-95 Respirator
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What does the FDA do, primarily?
Give out food
Crack down on big businesses
Handle taxes of corporations
Regulate what foods and drugs are allowed to be sold in the market
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What is the main job of the World Health Organization?
Works to maintain worldwide peace and security
Works to improve health in the United States
Works to improve overall global health
Provides support to middle income countries
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What is a systematic infection?
affects one body system
affects the entire body
keeps your whole body clean
it only affects the legs
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Helminths
arthropods
protozoa
worms
bacteria
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What is required when working with a CDif paitent
Wash your hands
Use hand sanitizer
Work without gloves
Treat them badly
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What should the nurse do to break the chain of infection at the reservoir level?
Cover the nose and mouth when sneezing.
Avoid contact of the uniform with soiled items.
Keep drainage systems intact.
Change a soiled dressing.
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the common cold is caused by this infectious agent
Helminthes
bacteria
virus
Prion
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Which one of the following is not a susceptible host?
A 20 year old.
A newborn.
A person exposed to COVID.
An 80 year old person.
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What is an endogenous infection?
From the hospital
From the patients own tissue
From the air
From allergic reactions
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You can spread hepatitis B
True
False
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what are pathogens?
living organisms that trigger an immune response
disease causing agents
only bacteria that are engulfed by phagocytic cells
nonpathogens that can trigger an immune response
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Which of the following is NOT a portal of exit?
Mouth
Cut in skin
Intact skin
Nose, eyes
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What is OSHA
A division of US Legislative Branch
A Workplace Injury
A Small town in Wisconsin
Group that assures safe and healthyworking conditions
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Athletes foot is caused by this infectious agent
Helminthes
bacteria
virus
fungus
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Staph Infection / MRSA
Bacteria
Protist
Fungi
Virus
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State
the name of this piece of PPE
Safety Goggles
Apron
Gloves
Welding mask
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What is PPE?
Personal Protective Clothing
Possible Protective Entertainment
Personal protective Equipment
Proposed Protective Equipment
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5) Are the elderly and people with compromised immune systems more at risk?
False
True
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Define: Nosocomial Infection
A bacterial infection that affects the lungs
Infection acquired in a hospital or other healthcare setting
A disease of the human immune system
Bacteria which causes severe watery diarrhea
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What is a local infection?
only able to get this infection once
what you get from your home town
only a specific portion of the body is infected
an infection from a particular region
