NSE 111 Readings & Lecture Test | 280 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | Latest Update | 45 Pages

What are critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - surgical instruments, intravascular catheters, urinary catheters, needles What are semicritical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - Electronic thermometers, resp therapy equiment, endotracheal tubes, GI endoscopes, vaginal and nasal specula What are non critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - Bedpans, urinals, and commodes, blood pressure cuffs, linens, stethoscopes, some eating utensils How long can cile live on inanimate surfaces? - weeks to months What is the most important and most basic technique in preventing the transmission of infections - hand hygiene If an infection can be transmitted from one person to another, it is a - communicable disease The mode of transmission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is: - Direct and indirect contact