NAVEDTRA 14295B CH 9

Question 1

What is defined as the hygienic means of promoting health through prevention of human contact with the hazards of wastes?

Answer 1

Sanitation

Question 2

What is any animal capable of transmitting pathogens or producing human or animal discomfort or injury called?

Answer 2

Vector

Question 3

What are organisms (insects, rodents, snakes, etc.) that adversely affect military operations and the well-being of man and animal; attack real property, supplies, and equipment; or are otherwise undesirable?

Answer 3

Pests

Question 4

What series addresses the requirements for food service training?

Answer 4

SECNAVINST 4061.1

Question 5

What are vaccines used to protect Navy and Marine Corps personnel against certain diseases before exposure to infection called?

Answer 5

Prophylactic immunizations

Question 6

What sets the minimum standards that immunizations procured for the Armed Forces are required to meet?

Answer 6

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Question 7

What are diseases that may be transmitted from a carrier to a susceptible host called?

Answer 7

Communicable

Question 8

What series sets drinking water standards for both ashore and afloat U.S. Naval establishments worldwide?

Answer 8

BUMEDINST 6240.1

Question 9

What is the spent water of a ship, base, industrial plant, or other activity called?

Answer 9

Wastewater

Question 10

In 2008, infections accounted for an estimated 1.7 million infections and how many associated deaths in American hospitals alone, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?

Answer 10

99,000

Question 11

What is the state of being free of pathogenic organisms called?

Answer 11

Asepsis

Question 12

What is the number of micro-organisms contaminating an object referred to as?

Answer 12

Bioburden

Question 13

What is a diagnostic test of a prevacuum sterilizer’s ability to remove air from the chamber and detect air leaks?

Answer 13

Bowie-Dick Type Test

Question 14

What is the reproduction and growth of micro-organisms in living tissue cells or on a nutrient medium called?

Answer 14

Culture

Question 15

What is an infection resulting from treatment in a hospital that is secondary to the patient’s original condition called?

Answer 15

Nosocomial Infection

Question 16

What is a process that destroys all types and forms of micro-organisms called?

Answer 16

Sterilization

Question 17

What is the quantity of materials or supplies required to treat a single patient called?

Answer 17

Unit dose

Question 18

What is the study of micro-organisms called?

Answer 18

Microbiology

Question 19

What are disease producing organisms said to be?

Answer 19

Pathogenic

Question 20

What are micro-organisms that are much smaller than bacteria called?

Answer 20

Viruses

Question 21

What are single-celled animals that do not have a rigid cell wall called?

Answer 21

Protozoa

Question 22

What is one of the most important procedures in preventing the transfer of micro-organisms from one person to another?

Answer 22

Hand washing

Question 23

What is an effective antiseptic for reducing transient and resident microbial hand flora, and has a sustained antimicrobial effect?

Answer 23

Chlorhexidine gluconate

Question 24

What are water soluble complexes of iodine with organic compounds that are effective against all gram- positive and gram-negative bacteria and viruses?

Answer 24

Iodophors

Question 25

Waterless hand washing agents contain 70 percent isopropyl alcohol and virtually disinfect the skin in how many seconds?

Answer 25

20

Question 26

Washing increases the protective nature of gloves up to what percent?

Answer 26

60

Question 27

What are the highest quality, most expensive, and best fitting gloves?

Answer 27

Sterile Surgical

Question 28

What type of gloves offer the highest quality and best fit at a greatly reduced cost when sterile surgical gloves are not required?

Answer 28

Procedural

Question 29

What type of gloves are the least expensive type of non-sterile gloves that are commonly used in routine procedures?

Answer 29

Latex examination

Question 30

What is a stiff, thin, woven mask used for simple procedures for protection from splashing and aerosols?

Answer 30

Cone mask

Question 31

What is a lightweight, nose-and-mouth respirator that can provide some level of protection for the wearer from viruses and small particles?

Answer 31

N95 Respirator

Question 32

What are the second tier of infection prevention precautions?

Answer 32

Transmission-based

Question 33

What precautions are used for patients infected with microorganisms spread by coughing, sneezing, or talking such as influenza virus, adenovirus and rhinovirus?

Answer 33

Droplet

Question 34

All active duty healthcare personnel will be tested for HIV every two years and tuberculosis testing and/or screening on what basis?

Answer 34

Annual

Question 35

What describes those practices used to prevent the transfer of pathogenic organisms from person to person, place to place, or person to place?

Answer 35

Medical asepsis

Question 36

For DTRs, at the beginning of the day flush each of the unit water lines and hoses for at least 1 minute, even if their use is not anticipated and flush for at least how many seconds between patients?

Answer 36

30

Question 37

Potable water supplies may contain up to 100 bacterial colony forming units per millimeter (cfu /ml), and water in dental units, at times, can contain in excess of how many cfu/ml?

Answer 37

1,000,000

Question 38

Up to what percent will three 10-second rinses with mouthwash temporarily reduce a patient’s microbial count by?

Answer 38

97

Question 39

What is a liquid or solid waste containing pathogens in sufficient numbers and of sufficient virulence to cause infectious disease in susceptible hosts exposed to the waste?

Answer 39

Infectious waste

Question 40

What should used disposable sharps, such as needles, scalpel blades, capsules, disposable syringes, used burs, and broken instruments be treated as?

Answer 40

Regulated waste

Question 41

f the HM is in an area where infectious waste cannot be treated on-site, do not store without refrigeration for more than how many days?

Answer 41

7

Question 42

Remove any blood or fluid spills with an absorbent material and disinfect the area with a solution of household bleach diluted to what amount with clear water or an EPA approved disinfectant?

Answer 42

1:10

Question 43

What is the term that describes the sterilization, storage, and handling of articles to keep them free of pathogenic organisms?

Answer 43

Surgical aseptic technique

Question 44

The use of what in the operating room is the LEAST DESIRABLE method of cleaning?

Answer 44

Mops

Question 45

What reduces resident and transient skin flora (bacteria) to a minimum?

Answer 45

Surgical hand scrub