Nursing 100 Wcu assessment 1
1. infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host: What is included in the chain of infection?
2. Clostridium difficile, staphylococcus aureus: What is an example of infectious
agents?
3. Table and bed: What is an example of a reservoir
4. Wound drainage, gi tract: What's an example of portal of exit?
5. Mouth, nose: What's an example of portal entry
6. susceptible host: a person likely to get an infection or disease, usually because body defenses
are weak
7. Health care
workers clients
furniture
equipment: Which of the following factors are examples of reservoirs in the chain of infection ?
8. direct contact transmission: person to person transmission
9. indirect transmission: Occurs when microorganisms first are transmitted to an object or
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, surface, and then are transferred to another person who touches those objects or surfaces
0. Coughing, sneezing, singing, and talking: What is an example of a droplet
transmission?
1. Tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox: What is an example of an airborne transmission
2. inflammatory response: a reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection
13. incubation, prodromal, acute illness, period decline, convalescence:
What are the stages of infection?
4. Incubation: an infection enters host and begins to mulitply
5. prodromal: the client begins having symptoms
6. Acute illness: manifestations of the specific infectious disease process are obvious and may
become severe
7. Period of decline: signs and symptoms of the disease subside; patient is vulnerable to
secondary infections
8. period of convalescence: the client returns to a normal or a "new normal" state of health
9. Local infections: confined to one area of the body, can be treated with topical antibiotics and oral
antibiotics
0. Systemic infections: start as local infections and then spread to the bloodstream to infect the
entire body
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1. infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host: What is included in the chain of infection?
2. Clostridium difficile, staphylococcus aureus: What is an example of infectious
agents?
3. Table and bed: What is an example of a reservoir
4. Wound drainage, gi tract: What's an example of portal of exit?
5. Mouth, nose: What's an example of portal entry
6. susceptible host: a person likely to get an infection or disease, usually because body defenses
are weak
7. Health care
workers clients
furniture
equipment: Which of the following factors are examples of reservoirs in the chain of infection ?
8. direct contact transmission: person to person transmission
9. indirect transmission: Occurs when microorganisms first are transmitted to an object or
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, surface, and then are transferred to another person who touches those objects or surfaces
0. Coughing, sneezing, singing, and talking: What is an example of a droplet
transmission?
1. Tuberculosis, measles, chickenpox: What is an example of an airborne transmission
2. inflammatory response: a reaction to tissue damage caused by injury or infection
13. incubation, prodromal, acute illness, period decline, convalescence:
What are the stages of infection?
4. Incubation: an infection enters host and begins to mulitply
5. prodromal: the client begins having symptoms
6. Acute illness: manifestations of the specific infectious disease process are obvious and may
become severe
7. Period of decline: signs and symptoms of the disease subside; patient is vulnerable to
secondary infections
8. period of convalescence: the client returns to a normal or a "new normal" state of health
9. Local infections: confined to one area of the body, can be treated with topical antibiotics and oral
antibiotics
0. Systemic infections: start as local infections and then spread to the bloodstream to infect the
entire body
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