Intro

Question 0

Who must understand, become client, and work together to ensure their own personal safety?

Answer 0

All fire and rescue department personnel

Question 1

Who is the first person to contact for exposure incident?

Answer 1

The duty safety officer

Question 2

This is a specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non- intact skin or partial contact with blood or other potentially infectious material that occurred in the provision of service?

Answer 2

Exposure incident

Question 3

This is a reasonable anticipated contact by way of injection, ingestion, or absorption through skin, eye, mucous membrane, non-intact skin, orparental contact with blood or other potentially infectious material or inhalation of airborne pathogens that may result from the performance of an employees duties?

Answer 3

Occupational exposure

Question 4

This is piercing of the mucous membranes or the skin barrier due to such events as needlesticks, human bites, animal bites, cuts and abrasions

Answer 4

Pat enteral exposure

Question 5

These are actions that reduce the likelihood of exposure by altering the manner in which a task is performed?

Answer 5

Work practice controls

Question 6

If personnel arrived on scene and are advised by the patient or family that the patient is under health department medical management then all providers must do what?

Answer 6

Use N95 respiratory protection until the status of that patient’s medical condition is definitively determined

Question 7

What shell all personnel wear during the response to incidents that require patient care?

Answer 7

Exam gloves

Question 8

What should be worn on incidents that are grossly contaminated?

Answer 8

Disposable protective sleeves and a second pair of gloves

Question 9

What should be worn to be protected from airborne droplets and particle pathogens?

Answer 9

Eyewear and N95

Question 10

Where can you get a loaner PIC KIT?

Answer 10

EMS supervisors

Question 11

What is strongly recommended to be worn for all patient contact encounters?

Answer 11

Eye protection

Question 12

How should any uniform that is contaminated with blood or other potentially infectious material be washed?

Answer 12

By it’s self, with no other non-contaminated uniforms included in the same wash

Question 13

Where can gross decontamination of uniforms be done?

Answer 13

At the station but must be done in a controlled and contained environment with personnel wearing appropriate PPE which includes exam gloves and safety glasses

Question 14

This type of contamination is considered to be nonpenetrating soil of the outer surface layer of the fabric?

Answer 14

Light contamination

Question 15

This type of contamination is considered wet soiling that soaks through the fabric?

Answer 15

Heavy contamination

Question 16

What should be done with any suppression structural PPE that sustains blood or body fluids contamination?

Answer 16

Be sent to the gear center for cleaning

Question 17

What needs to be done to any gear or clothing that has sustained significant soiling before sending it to the gear center?

Answer 17

Undergone gross decontamination prior to being doubled red bag for transportation

Question 18

What is the only way to reduce exposures to personnel?

Answer 18

That compliance of regulations are being followed and the correct PPE is Worn

Question 19

What are the two categories that standard precautions fall under

Answer 19

Work practice controls and personal protective equipment

Question 20

This includes good hand hygiene in the practice of a fact of handwashing after every patient encounter, cleaning and disinfecting regimens, management of biohazard waste, and shard injury prevention that focuses on recognition of sharps hazards taskand development through training of proper methods for handling sharps to eliminate the potential for sharps injuries?

Answer 20

Work practice controls

Question 21

What is the most significant barrier to transmission of infectious disease?

Answer 21

Good hand hygiene

Question 22

Blood and body fluids from another person introduced through exposure by any skin puncturing injury or event that compromises the integrity of the skin will be considered what type of exposure?

Answer 22

Risk exposure

Question 23

If they risk exposure occurs in the source patient refuses both offer of transport and blood draw who should be contacted

Answer 23

Safety officer or ICPO

Question 24

What type of sharp shuttle container be single use, taped shut, and dispose of to a sharps container at the patients destination hospital?

Answer 24

P2

Question 25

When should 8 quart containers be disposed of?

Answer 25

When 2/3 full

Question 26

Who is responsible for making sure no infectious waste of any kind is left at the incident scene?

Answer 26

The officer in charge of the last remaining fire and rescue department unit

Question 27

This is a blood-borne pathogen exposure event that is defined as blood or body fluids contact with Intech skin for less than 30 minutes, to the work uniform, or personal protective equipment

Answer 27

Non-risk

Question 28

This type of exposure to blood borne pathogen's as a specific event in which there is contact with the eye, mouth, other mucous membranes, non-Intech skin, intact skin for a Pieriert longer than 30 minutes, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious material of another person that results from the performance of the employees duties?

Answer 28

Risk exposure

Question 29

What immediate reaction to any potentially infectious exposure event shall take place?

Answer 29

What ever measures could reasonably maximize removal of the foreign substance and any effort to minimize the exposure from progressing.

Question 30

After removing the foreign substance what notification shall be made?

Answer 30

Notify the providers duty safety officer

Question 31

What form needs to be filled out and faxed to the safety officer as soon as possible

Answer 31

FRD-314

Question 32

For personnel who sustained a exposure and are not assigned to a transport unit that unit shall be placed out of service until when

Answer 32

Until the safety officer can make contact with the expose provider, make a determination of exposure status, determine what actions need to be taken, and if the unit can return to service with or without the expose provider as minimum staff

Question 33

When can providers remain part of minimum staffing when they have been exposed to a potential risk exposure

Answer 33

Never

Question 34

Who needs to be contacted on it exposure event that the source patient refuses transport to a hospital?

Answer 34

Notify the duty safety officer and call for an EMS supervisor

Question 35

How should you document an occupational exposure on the EPCR?

Answer 35

"An occupational exposure events occurred to personnel of unit 401 while providing care"

Question 36

Who should be contacted for an off-duty exposure?

Answer 36

Duty shift safety officer

Question 37

What should be obtained for off-duty exposure to help facilitate the investigation of the exposure?

Answer 37

Source patients name, date of birth, medical record number at receiving hospital. Destination hospital, charge nurse, contact phone number Name of transporting service, unit number Name of the officer in charge of the transport unit, contact phone number