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What's does infection control involve?
✔taking steps to prevent the spread of infectious agents
Antibacterial
✔directed or effective against bacteria (KILLS)
Antiseptic
✔preventing or arresting the growth of microorganisms
Asepsis
✔the condition of being aseptic (absence of pathogens growing)
Aseptic technique
✔preventing infection (reduces the risk of infection)
Bacteria
✔single cell microorganism that multiplies rapidly
Blood-borne pathogen
✔A specific causative agent of disease located in the blood (HIV or hepatitis)
Contagious disease
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✔infectious disease that is spread through contact with one who has it, with bodily discharge or
an object touched by that person
contaminated
✔to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association (presence of blood or other material that is
infectious or potentially infectious)
direct contact
✔union of body surfaces
disinfectant ✔free from infection (kills agent but not spores)
disinfection
✔process that eliminates agent but not spores
fungi
✔kingdom of parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic that lacks chlorophyll (molds, rust, mildew)
Health care-associated infections (HAIs)
✔Nosocomial infection that occurs in a hospital, happens within 72 hours of being admitted,
mostly due to lack of care
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infection
✔infective agent contaminated with an infective agent
isolation
✔separation for a period of time to prevent or limit transmission of infectious agent
Microorganism
✔organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size
pathogen
✔disease or virus that produces infection
Standard Precautions
✔group of infection prevention that applies to all patients
Infection Control Concepts
✔standard precautions are concepts in which all body fluids are assumed to be infected with
blood-borne pathogens
chain of infection
✔sequence of events that must occur to develop an infection
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What's does infection control involve?
✔taking steps to prevent the spread of infectious agents
Antibacterial
✔directed or effective against bacteria (KILLS)
Antiseptic
✔preventing or arresting the growth of microorganisms
Asepsis
✔the condition of being aseptic (absence of pathogens growing)
Aseptic technique
✔preventing infection (reduces the risk of infection)
Bacteria
✔single cell microorganism that multiplies rapidly
Blood-borne pathogen
✔A specific causative agent of disease located in the blood (HIV or hepatitis)
Contagious disease
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✔infectious disease that is spread through contact with one who has it, with bodily discharge or
an object touched by that person
contaminated
✔to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association (presence of blood or other material that is
infectious or potentially infectious)
direct contact
✔union of body surfaces
disinfectant ✔free from infection (kills agent but not spores)
disinfection
✔process that eliminates agent but not spores
fungi
✔kingdom of parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic that lacks chlorophyll (molds, rust, mildew)
Health care-associated infections (HAIs)
✔Nosocomial infection that occurs in a hospital, happens within 72 hours of being admitted,
mostly due to lack of care
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infection
✔infective agent contaminated with an infective agent
isolation
✔separation for a period of time to prevent or limit transmission of infectious agent
Microorganism
✔organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size
pathogen
✔disease or virus that produces infection
Standard Precautions
✔group of infection prevention that applies to all patients
Infection Control Concepts
✔standard precautions are concepts in which all body fluids are assumed to be infected with
blood-borne pathogens
chain of infection
✔sequence of events that must occur to develop an infection
