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1. What is the convalescent period? - ANSWER recovery from the
infection
2. What is a vascular response? - ANSWER causes vasodilation, allows
blood flow to the area
3. Cellular response to infection - ANSWER The damaged cells release
chemicals including histamine, bradykinin, and prostaglandins.
-cause blood vessels to leak fluid into the tissues, causing swelling.
4. What is inflammatory exudate - ANSWER fluid that leaks out of blood
vessels into nearby tissues
5. What does the tissue response to injury prevent? - ANSWER spread of
damaging agents to nearby tissues
6. What is normal flora? - ANSWER responsible for resistance to
colonization by pathogenic microorganisms
,7. the absence of pathogenic (disease producing) microorganisms. - ANSWER
Asepsis
8. Clean technique the reduces organisms and prevents transfer - ANSWER
medical asepsis
9. Sterile technique that destroys microorganisms and their spores - ANSWER
Surgical asepsis
10.performing hand hygiene before and after contact with a patient is an
example of - ANSWER medical asepsis
11.knowing a patient's susceptibility to infection (Age, nutritional status,
stress) is an example of? - ANSWER Medical asepsis
12.educating patients about infection prevention is what type of care? -
ANSWER patient-centered care
13.What is PPE? - ANSWER personal protective equipment
14.What is cohorting? - ANSWER grouping patients with same infection
15.How is C. difficile removed from a nurses hands? - ANSWER Soap and
Water
, True or False
16.proper hand hygiene helps to protect other patients and health care
workers. - ANSWER true
17.Who is at greater risk for infection? - ANSWER older adults
18.Do standard precautions apply to blood, blood products, all bodily fluids,
secretions, excretions, nonintact skin, and mucous membranes? - ANSWER
Yes - expect for sweat
19.When would a nurse use transmission based precautions - ANSWER for
care of patients who are known or suspected to be infected, or colonized,
with microorganisms
20.What are the different routes of transmission - ANSWER airborne,
contact, droplet
21.Would a nurse record procedures performed and the patient's response -
ANSWER yes
22.Does the nurse record the patient's response to social isolation? - ANSWER
yes