RATED A+
✔✔microorganism that is the most difficult to control and destroy - ✔✔Spore forming
bacteria
✔✔chain of infection - ✔✔pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission,
portal of entry, new host
✔✔Hand washing - ✔✔Most effective and useful means of breaking the chain of
infection
✔✔communicable disease - ✔✔a disease that is spread from one host to another
✔✔contagious disease - ✔✔a type of communicable disease that spreads quickly from
person to person
✔✔epidemic - ✔✔large outbreak of a particular disease in a specific area
✔✔Pathogenic microorganisms - ✔✔Microorganisms that cause disease
✔✔nosocomial infection - ✔✔an infection acquired during hospitalization
✔✔Hand washing - ✔✔Single most useful and effective means of breaking the chain of
infection
✔✔Air borne precautions, droplet precautions, contact precautions - ✔✔Three types of
transmission based precautions
✔✔Airborne precautions - ✔✔Private rooms that have motonired negative air flow
pressure and door should remain closed
TB
✔✔Droplet precautions - ✔✔Private room room or share with same infectious patient,
with doors that may remain open
Wear a mask when working within 3 feet of the patient and require the patient to wear a
mask if being transported
✔✔Contact precautions - ✔✔MOST FREQUENT MODE OF DISEASE
TRANSMISSION
, Private room or share with same infectious patient. The doors ay remain open. Try to
restrict the use of non critical equipment to one patient only and disinfect that equipment
before using on other patients
✔✔Surgical asepsis - ✔✔No organisms are carried to then carried to the patient.
Microorganisms are destroyed from surfaces before they can enter the body.
✔✔10 to 15 to 2 min or longer - ✔✔Hand washing time
✔✔Incubation period - ✔✔First phase when pathogen enters body and first signs and
symptoms
✔✔Prodromal stage - ✔✔Onset of initial symptoms such as fatigue or low grade fever to
more severe symptoms
✔✔Full stage of illness - ✔✔Symptoms are acute and specific to the type of infection
such as lesions covering the body or high fever
✔✔Convalescent stage - ✔✔When acute symptoms of the infection subside and the
person recovers
✔✔Oral - ✔✔The most common way to give medications
✔✔Subcutaneous SC - ✔✔under the layer of skin
✔✔Intramuscular IM - ✔✔injected into muscle
✔✔Intradermal ID - ✔✔Injected into the dermal layer of skin
✔✔Ophthalmic drugs - ✔✔In the eye
✔✔Allergic reaction - ✔✔SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
Pruritus
Hive or uticaria
Reddish skin erythema
swollen watery itchy eyes
Increased heart rate
TREATMENT
bronchodilator
Cortisone
Antihistamine