PC WEEK 1 ( CH 9 INFECTION CONTROL)
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
/.create and maintain a safe clinical environment to eliminate the potential for disease
transmission from clinician to client, client to clinician, or client to client - Answer-✅goal
of infection control
/.need fulfillment dominates human activity and is organized in relation to unsatisfied
needs
- relates directly to standard-infection control precautions - Answer-✅human needs
theory
/.a set of infection-control precautions that when used consistently ensure the safe
delivery of oral healthcare
- treat all clients as potentially harboring disease-producing organisms
- applies to all body fluids, excretions, and secretions, with the exception of sweat and
tears - Answer-✅standard precautions
/.begins with assessment of the healthcare delivery environment, ensuring it is free from
infectious hazards - Answer-✅infection control
/.parallels the model of dental hygiene care
- procedurally placed, not client based - Answer-✅infection control
/.why is it important to focus on infection control, rather than the client's individual health
history? - Answer-✅scrutinizing each individual health history does not determine the
degree of risk for disease transmission. A person may be infected and not know it
/.Two agencies of the U.S. government that play key roles in infection control - Answer-
✅CDC
OSHA
/.Its mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury, and disability
- develops guidelines and recommendations, including infection control guidelines for
healthcare settings
- one of eight federal public health agencies within the US department of health and
human services
- does not enforce the guidelines it develops - Answer-✅CDC
(centers for disease control)
, /.Protects persons by ensuring a safe and healthy workplace
- part of the US department of Labor
- enforces workplace safety regulations, including infection control in healthcare settings
- Answer-✅OSHA
(occupational safety and health administration)
/.provide regulatory oversight in the area of products used in the application of infection-
control procedures - Answer-✅FDA
EPA
/.- mission is to protect human health and environment
-Regulates medical and chemical waste
-Registration of chemical germicides used for healthcare (disinfectants) - Answer-
✅EPA
(US environmental protection agency)
/.-Monitor products for continued safety
-Promote and protect public health by helping produces reach market in a timely
manner
-Helps public obtain accurate info needed to improve health
- regulates all medical devices, from tongue depressors to heart pacemakers and
dialysis machines - Answer-✅FDA
(US food and drug administration)
/.the level of care that a reasonably prudent practitioner would exercise
- minimum level acceptable in all aspects of client care
- provides a basis from which to promote excellence and encourage performance
improvement - Answer-✅standard of care
/.who determines the standard of care? - Answer-✅other dental practitioners and
experts, licensing boards, government agencies, evidence based guidelines, and
infection control regulations
/.Organisms can be transmitted by way of: - Answer-✅-Direct contact with blood, oral
fluids, or other client materials
-Indirect contact with contaminated objects
-droplet contact- Contact of mucous membranes (also coughing, sneezing, talking, any
droplets)
-Inhalation of micro organisms
/.what does sufficient virulence mean? - Answer-✅the pathogen must be sufficiently
hostile or powerful
/.Basic strategy for HCP to take action to stay healthy - Answer-✅Develop a personnel
health program
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
/.create and maintain a safe clinical environment to eliminate the potential for disease
transmission from clinician to client, client to clinician, or client to client - Answer-✅goal
of infection control
/.need fulfillment dominates human activity and is organized in relation to unsatisfied
needs
- relates directly to standard-infection control precautions - Answer-✅human needs
theory
/.a set of infection-control precautions that when used consistently ensure the safe
delivery of oral healthcare
- treat all clients as potentially harboring disease-producing organisms
- applies to all body fluids, excretions, and secretions, with the exception of sweat and
tears - Answer-✅standard precautions
/.begins with assessment of the healthcare delivery environment, ensuring it is free from
infectious hazards - Answer-✅infection control
/.parallels the model of dental hygiene care
- procedurally placed, not client based - Answer-✅infection control
/.why is it important to focus on infection control, rather than the client's individual health
history? - Answer-✅scrutinizing each individual health history does not determine the
degree of risk for disease transmission. A person may be infected and not know it
/.Two agencies of the U.S. government that play key roles in infection control - Answer-
✅CDC
OSHA
/.Its mission is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling
disease, injury, and disability
- develops guidelines and recommendations, including infection control guidelines for
healthcare settings
- one of eight federal public health agencies within the US department of health and
human services
- does not enforce the guidelines it develops - Answer-✅CDC
(centers for disease control)
, /.Protects persons by ensuring a safe and healthy workplace
- part of the US department of Labor
- enforces workplace safety regulations, including infection control in healthcare settings
- Answer-✅OSHA
(occupational safety and health administration)
/.provide regulatory oversight in the area of products used in the application of infection-
control procedures - Answer-✅FDA
EPA
/.- mission is to protect human health and environment
-Regulates medical and chemical waste
-Registration of chemical germicides used for healthcare (disinfectants) - Answer-
✅EPA
(US environmental protection agency)
/.-Monitor products for continued safety
-Promote and protect public health by helping produces reach market in a timely
manner
-Helps public obtain accurate info needed to improve health
- regulates all medical devices, from tongue depressors to heart pacemakers and
dialysis machines - Answer-✅FDA
(US food and drug administration)
/.the level of care that a reasonably prudent practitioner would exercise
- minimum level acceptable in all aspects of client care
- provides a basis from which to promote excellence and encourage performance
improvement - Answer-✅standard of care
/.who determines the standard of care? - Answer-✅other dental practitioners and
experts, licensing boards, government agencies, evidence based guidelines, and
infection control regulations
/.Organisms can be transmitted by way of: - Answer-✅-Direct contact with blood, oral
fluids, or other client materials
-Indirect contact with contaminated objects
-droplet contact- Contact of mucous membranes (also coughing, sneezing, talking, any
droplets)
-Inhalation of micro organisms
/.what does sufficient virulence mean? - Answer-✅the pathogen must be sufficiently
hostile or powerful
/.Basic strategy for HCP to take action to stay healthy - Answer-✅Develop a personnel
health program
