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Infection - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔disease state resulting from
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pathogens in or on the body
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health promotion and nursing assessment - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔nurses assess health-promotion activities
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introduce screening questions |/ |/
collaboration
body's defense against infection - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔body's
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normal flora
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inflammatory response |/
immune response |/
factors affecting host susceptibility - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔intact skin and mucous membranes
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normal ph levels
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,body's white blood cells
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age, sex, race, hereditary factors
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immunization, natural or acquired |/ |/ |/
fatigue, climate, nutritional and general health status
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stress
use of invasive or indwelling medical device
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nosocomial infections - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔use of invasive
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medical devices
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antibiotic-resistant organisms developed in hospitals |/ |/ |/ |/
components of infection - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔infectious
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agent
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reservoir
portal of exit |/ |/
means of transmission|/ |/
,portals of entry |/ |/
susceptible host |/
pathogens - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔disease-producing
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microorganism
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bacteria - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the most significant and most
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commonly observed infection-causing agents
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cocci, bacilli, or spirochetes
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gram-positive - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔have a thick cell wall that |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/
resists decolorization and are stained violet
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gram-negative - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔have chemically more |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/
complex cell was and can be decolorized by alcohol thus they do
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not stain
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virus - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔is the smallest of all
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microorganism, visible only with an electron microscope
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fungi - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔plant like organisms that also can
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cause infection, are present in the air soil and water
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, parasites - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔are organisms that live on or
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in a host and rely on it for nourishment
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virulence - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔it's ability to cause disease
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an organisms potential to produce disease depends on a variety
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of factors - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔number of organism
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virulence
competence of the person's immune system |/ |/ |/ |/ |/
length and intimacy of the contact between the person and the
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microorganism
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Colonization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔presence of an organism |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/ |/
residing in an individual's body with no clinical signs of infection
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if person's defense mechanism are ineffective in responding to
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the bacterial invasion (colonization), infection will result
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Reservoir - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔natural habitat for the growth
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and multiplication of microorganisms
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ex:
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-animals
-soil
-food, water, milk |/ |/