INFECTION PREVENTION FINAL PAPER
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Barrier Protection (PPE).
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment; masks, goggles, face shileds,
respirators, etc., provide a barrier against infection to the person wearing
it; proper disposal will assist in slowing the spread of infection
●● OSHA.
Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration; assists
employers in providing a safe and healthy working environment for their
employees; developed the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard which must
be followed by any employee with occupational exposure to pathogens;
went into effect in 1992 to reduce the ristk of exposure to employees
exposed to infectious disease
●● Ultrasonic Cleaning.
Answer: used for delicate items and thosde with moving parts; sound
waves move through the cleaning solution to clean the item
●● Disinfection.
Answer: a technique used to destroy many but not all pathogenic
organisms such as spores; caustic chemicals are used to disinfect
, medical equipment that is not able to be autoclaved; instruments and
equipment that are disinfected are used externally such as stethoscopes,
reflex hamnmers or visual occlude; types of disinfectants include sodium
hypochlorite (household bleach 1:10 soultion), alcohol, iodophors,
glutaraldehyde, and formaldehyde
●● Asepsis.
Answer: being free of disease-producing microbes
●● Medical Asepsis.
Answer: the practice of removing or destroying pathogens and to
prevent pathogens from spreading from one person or place to another
●● Surgical Asepsis.
Answer: the practice that keeps items free of all microbes; sterilization is
the process of destroying all microbes; contamination is the process of
becoming unclean; germicides are disinfectants applied to the skin,
tissues and non-living objects
●● Sanitization.
Answer: the scrubbing of instruments with special brushes and
detergents to remove blood, mucous, etc
●● Autoclave.
2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Barrier Protection (PPE).
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment; masks, goggles, face shileds,
respirators, etc., provide a barrier against infection to the person wearing
it; proper disposal will assist in slowing the spread of infection
●● OSHA.
Answer: Occupational Safety and Health Adminstration; assists
employers in providing a safe and healthy working environment for their
employees; developed the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard which must
be followed by any employee with occupational exposure to pathogens;
went into effect in 1992 to reduce the ristk of exposure to employees
exposed to infectious disease
●● Ultrasonic Cleaning.
Answer: used for delicate items and thosde with moving parts; sound
waves move through the cleaning solution to clean the item
●● Disinfection.
Answer: a technique used to destroy many but not all pathogenic
organisms such as spores; caustic chemicals are used to disinfect
, medical equipment that is not able to be autoclaved; instruments and
equipment that are disinfected are used externally such as stethoscopes,
reflex hamnmers or visual occlude; types of disinfectants include sodium
hypochlorite (household bleach 1:10 soultion), alcohol, iodophors,
glutaraldehyde, and formaldehyde
●● Asepsis.
Answer: being free of disease-producing microbes
●● Medical Asepsis.
Answer: the practice of removing or destroying pathogens and to
prevent pathogens from spreading from one person or place to another
●● Surgical Asepsis.
Answer: the practice that keeps items free of all microbes; sterilization is
the process of destroying all microbes; contamination is the process of
becoming unclean; germicides are disinfectants applied to the skin,
tissues and non-living objects
●● Sanitization.
Answer: the scrubbing of instruments with special brushes and
detergents to remove blood, mucous, etc
●● Autoclave.
