LVN Term 1 - Quiz 2 - Infection Control
- Chapter 7 Study Guide well answered
What is true regarding surgical asepsis? - correct answer ✔✔ It is known as a sterile technique.
What action exemplifies a nurse practicing medical asepsis in performing daily care? - correct
answer ✔✔ Keeping bed linens off the floor.
What bacteria can lie dormant when conditions for growth are not favorable? - correct answer
✔✔ Spores
A patient with a respiratory infection reports that he is not yet on an antibiotic. The nurse
explains that the health care provider is waiting on the results of the culture and sensitivity.
What does this mean? - correct answer ✔✔ Which antibiotics stop bacterial growth?
What bacterium is responsible for more diseases than any other organism? - correct answer
✔✔ Streptococcus
What additional complication does a disease caused by a virus have compared to a disease
caused by bacteria? - correct answer ✔✔ Is not killed by antibiotics.
The nurse is concerned when a patient admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia suddenly
develops a urinary tract infection (UTI). What type of infection is this UTI considered? - correct
answer ✔✔ Health care-associated infection
What assessment does the nurse recognize as an inflammatory response in a surgical wound on
the leg of a patient? - correct answer ✔✔ Rubor and edema appear around the wound.
- Chapter 7 Study Guide well answered
What is true regarding surgical asepsis? - correct answer ✔✔ It is known as a sterile technique.
What action exemplifies a nurse practicing medical asepsis in performing daily care? - correct
answer ✔✔ Keeping bed linens off the floor.
What bacteria can lie dormant when conditions for growth are not favorable? - correct answer
✔✔ Spores
A patient with a respiratory infection reports that he is not yet on an antibiotic. The nurse
explains that the health care provider is waiting on the results of the culture and sensitivity.
What does this mean? - correct answer ✔✔ Which antibiotics stop bacterial growth?
What bacterium is responsible for more diseases than any other organism? - correct answer
✔✔ Streptococcus
What additional complication does a disease caused by a virus have compared to a disease
caused by bacteria? - correct answer ✔✔ Is not killed by antibiotics.
The nurse is concerned when a patient admitted with a diagnosis of pneumonia suddenly
develops a urinary tract infection (UTI). What type of infection is this UTI considered? - correct
answer ✔✔ Health care-associated infection
What assessment does the nurse recognize as an inflammatory response in a surgical wound on
the leg of a patient? - correct answer ✔✔ Rubor and edema appear around the wound.
