HOSPITAL CORPSMAN TEST 2 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED / VERIFIED ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE

antibacterial - ANS directed or effective against bacteria antiseptic - ANS preventing or arresting the growth of microorganisms asepsis - ANS the condition of being aseptic aseptic technique - ANS preventing infection bacteria - ANS any of a domain of prokaryotic round, spiral, or rod shaped single-celled microorganism that may lack cell walls or are gram positive or gram-negative, typically live in soil, water, organic matter, or the bodies of plants and animals blood-born pathogen - ANS a specific causative agent (as a bacterium or virus) of disease located in the blood contagious disease (communicable disease) - ANS an infectious disease communicable by contact with one who who has it with a bodily discharge of such a patient, or with a object touched by the patient contaminated - ANS to soil, stain, or infect by contact or association direct contact - ANS union or junction of body surfaces disinfection - ANS to free from infection especially by destroying harmful microorganisms fungi (fungus) - ANS any of the kingdom fungi of saprophytic and parasitic spore-producing eukaryotic typically filamentous organisms formerly classified as plants that lack chlorophyll and include molds, rust, mildews, smuts, mushrooms, and yeasts healthcare associated infections - ANS HAI's, also known as a nosocomial infection; acquired or occurring in a hospital infection - ANS an infective agent or material contaminated with an infective agent isolation - ANS a separating for the period of communicability of infected people or animals from others, so as to prevent or limit the direct or indirect transmission of the infectious agent from those who are infected to those who are susceptible microorganism - ANS an organism of microscopic or ultramicroscopic size pathogen - ANS a disease producing microorganism standard precautions - ANS a group of infection prevention practices that apply to all patients, regardless of suspected or confirmed diagnosis or presumed infection status infection control concepts - ANS standard precautions are concepts in which all body fluids are assumed to be infected with blood-borne pathogens blood-borne pathogen - ANS microorganisms that are present in human blood, and can cause disease in humans airborne pathogen - ANS microorganisms that are transported through the air chain of infection - ANS a sequence of circumstances where all events must occur to develop an infection infectious agent (pathogen) - ANS disease causing microorganism bacteria - ANS single cell microorganisms that multiply rapidly