Infection Control

Question 1

Infectious Agent

Answer 1

Fungi, Bacteria, viruses, and parasites

Question 2

Reservoir

Answer 2

Where agents are found:
Animals
Humans
Food and Water
Environment

Question 3

Portal of Exit

Answer 3

Where germs escape from
Openings in skin
Mucous Membranes
Stool, urine, and blood.
Moisture and droplets

Question 4

Mode of Transmission

Answer 4

How agents travel
Superficial Contact
Sexual Contact
Droplet
Underprepared food

Question 5

Portal of entry

Answer 5

Openings in skin
Body cavity
Mucous Membranes
Eating and Drinking

Question 6

Susceptible Host

Answer 6

Anyone
Animals
Higher risk if young, immunodeficient, and underlying conditions

Question 7

What are the stages of infection?

Answer 7

Incubation
Prodromal
Illness
Decline
Convalescence

Question 8

Incubation

Answer 8

Time takes for the infection to grow and produce symptoms

Question 9

Prodromal

Answer 9

Infection is growing. Body showing early signs.

Question 10

Illness

Answer 10

Obvious symptoms

Question 11

Decline

Answer 11

Infection declines. Higher risk for infection.

Question 12

Convalescence

Answer 12

Improvement

Question 13

PPE

Answer 13

Personal Protective Equipment

Question 14

Donning

Answer 14

Perform Hand Hygiene
Put on Gown
Put on Mask
Put on goggles
Put on Face Shield
Put on Gloves

Question 15

Doffing

Answer 15

1. Remove Gloves
2. Remove protective eyewear
3. Remove gown
4. Remove respirator
5. Perform Hand hygiene

Question 16

CAUTI

Answer 16

Catheter associated urinary tract infection

Question 17

SSI

Answer 17

Surgical Site Infection

Question 18

CLABSI

Answer 18

Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection

Question 19

VAP

Answer 19

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Question 20

C Diff

Answer 20

Clostridium Difficile

Question 21

MRSA

Answer 21

Methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus