a-IPC FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT VERSION>

a-IPC FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100% GUARANTEED PASS &lt;RECENT VERSION&gt; 1. HICPAC - ANSWER Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee -infection prevention and control 2. OSHA - ANSWER Occupational Safety and Health Administration -healthcare worker safety 3. AORN - ANSWER Association of periOperative Registered Nurses -surgery related 4. AAMI - ANSWER Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation -machines, dialysis, instruments, surgeries 5. DOT - ANSWER Department of Transport -transportation of hazardous waste 6. CMS - ANSWER Centers for Medicare and Medicaid 7. TJC - ANSWER The Joint Commission -standards for hospitals/health related facilities. 8. Bioterrorism : Category A - ANSWER Highest priority: national security = easily transmitted + high mortality rates  Smallpox (variola)  Botulism toxin  Anthrax  Tularemia  Hemorrhagic viral fevers  Plague 9. Bioterrorism: Category B - ANSWER Second-highest priority: Moderately easy to transfer + high morbidity/mortality rates  Typhus  Cholera 10. Bioterrorism: Category C - ANSWER Emerging infectious diseases/pathogens *Hantavirus 11. contact precautions - ANSWER gown and gloves 12. Droplet precautions - ANSWER spiderman! sepsis, scarlet fever, streptococcal pharyngitis, parvovirus, pneumonia, pertussis, influenza, diptheria, epiglottitis, rubella, mumps, meningitis, mycoplasma or meningeal pneumonia, adeNovirus *Private room and mask) 13. Airborne precautions - ANSWER MTV or My chicken hez tb measles, chickenpox (varicella) Herpes zoster/shingles TB *N-95 14. Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC) - ANSWER board that administers certification process for professionals in infection control and epidemiology 15. National Commission on Certifying Agencies - ANSWER accredits CBIC and a committee of the National Competency Assessment Organization 16. CBIC Mission statement - ANSWER to protect the public through the development, administration, and promotion of an accredited certification in infection prevention and control 17. CDC - ANSWER Center for Disease Control 18. APIC - ANSWER Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. 19. CDC and APIC - ANSWER made standards for practice 20. administrative controls - ANSWER admin measures to reduce risks of pathogenic transmissions in health care settings 21. aerosols - ANSWER small particles less than 10 micrometers that remain airborne and viable for extended periods of time in the environment (water and air syringes) 22. airborne transmission - ANSWER pathogen that's airborne then possibly inhaled by the host as droplet nuclei 23. alcohol-based hand rub - ANSWER reduces number of viable microorganisms on hands 24. The bacterium most likely to be transmitted from mother to infant during labor and cause neonatal sepsis is: a. Escherichia coli b. Staphylococcus aureus c. Group B Streptococcus d. Group A Streptococcus - ANSWER c. Group B Streptococcus 25. Which of the following is an example of the criterion of "Strength of the Association" from Hill's criteria for causation? a. In a study of the association between antibiotic exposure and development of C. difficile infection, the odds ratio was 2:3 b. In a study of the association between antibiotic exposure and development of C. difficile infection, the authors' conclusions are consistent with those of three other studies c. In a study of the association between antibiotic exposure and development of C. difficile infection, antibiotic therapy began an average of 3 weeks before C. difficile infection developed d. In a study of the association between antibiotic exposure and development of C. difficile infection, prolonged antibiotic therapy was a greater risk factor for C. difficile infection than short-term antibiotic therapy - ANSWER a. In a study of the association between antibiotic exposure and development of C. difficile infection, the odds ratio was 2:3 26. Which of the following rules should be followed when collecting a stool sample for C. difficile testing? 1) Stool sample should be freshly passed within 1-2 hours 2) 10-20mL. of formed stool should be collected 3) Stool should be passed into a clean, dry container 4) Specimens should be obtained before antimicrobial agents have been administered a. 1, 2 b. 2, 3 c. 1, 3 d. 1, 4 - ANSWER c. 1, 3 27. What type of meningitis would be most consistent with the following cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) report result: Glucose= Decreased; Protein= Elevated; WBC counts= 1,000/mm3 a. Bacterial b. Viral c. Fungal d. Tuberculosis - ANSWER a. Bacterial 28. The following blood culture result should be considered a potential contaminant: a. A positive result of coagulase-negative staphylococci from two sets, 2 days apart, without symptoms b. A positive result of S. aureus from one bottle in a patient with a temperature of 38.6°C c. A positive result of E. coli from one bottle in an afebrile patient with diarrhea d. A positive result of Candida albicans in a fungal blood culture in a patient with a urinary tract infection - ANSWER a. A positive result of coagulase-negative staphylococci from two sets, 2 days apart, without symptoms