TECHNIQUES 10TH EDITION FINAL PAPER
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ How do you evaluate the change?
Answer: measure outcomes to see how the intervention worked, how
effective was the clinical change to my patients(more time, decline in
fall rate)
⩥ How do you communicate and disseminate?
Answer: release the results to nursing and other members of the
healthcare team; have staff meetings, workshops, poster presentation,
publish
⩥ What does infection control do?
Answer: provides measures that reduce or eliminate sources and
transmission of infection, protects patients and health care providers
from disease, HAND HYGIENE, all patients in any setting are at risk,
health care- associated infections (HAIs) are acquired in health care
settings
⩥ Chain of Infection (an infection develops if this chain remains intact,
break the chain)
,Answer: Transmission - portal of entry - host susceptibility - infectious
agent - reservoir - portal of exit
⩥ What is medical asepsis?
Answer: clean technique; reduces organisms, prevents transfer
⩥ What are some medical asepsis (clean technique) practices?
Answer: hand hygiene, barrier techniques, routine environmental
cleaning, washing hands before preparing food
⩥ What is sterile asepsis?
Answer: sterile technique (asepsis) eliminates pathogenic organisms,
used for surgery and other invasive procedures such as insertion of a
central line
⩥ What is patient-centered care?
Answer: teach patients about infection control, patients in isolation
(watch patients for sins of loneliness, changes in self concept or body
image), practice cultural awareness
⩥ What is evidence based practice on hygiene?
Answer: bundled intervention (wall-mounted dispenser, pocket bottles,
education), alcohol-based hygiene products more effective and reduce
, infections (less skin irritation and dryness), soap and water (for visibly
soiled hands, when caring for patients with Clostridium difficile)
⩥ What makes clients more susceptible to infection?
Answer: age, nutritional status, stress, disease processes, forms of
medical therapy can place patients at risk
⩥ Hand Hygiene Skill 9-1
Answer: most important technique for infection control, hand hygiene
(handwashing, antiseptic hand wash, antiseptic hand rub, surgical hand
asepsis), decision to perform hand hygiene based on (degree of contact,
amount of contamination, susceptibility to infection, procedure/activity
to be performed), hand hygiene is NOT optional
⩥ Define handwashing.
Answer: refers to washing hands with plan soap and water
⩥ Define antiseptic hand wash.
Answer: defined as washing hands with water and soap or other
detergents containing an antiseptic agent
⩥ Define antiseptic hand rub.
Answer: applying an antiseptic hand rub product to all surfaces of the
hands to reduce the number of microorganisms present