NSE 111 Readings & Lecture 279 Questions With Correct Answers

What are critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - ️️surgical instruments, intravascular catheters, urinary catheters, needles What are semicritical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - ️️Electronic thermometers, resp therapy equiment, endotracheal tubes, GI endoscopes, vaginal and nasal specula What are non critical items for sterilization, disinfection, and cleaning? - ️️Bedpans, urinals, and commodes, blood pressure cuffs, linens, stethoscopes, some eating utensils How long can cile live on inanimate surfaces? - ️️weeks to months What is the most important and most basic technique in preventing the transmission of infections - ️️hand hygiene If an infection can be transmitted from one person to another, it is a - ️️communicable disease The mode of transmission for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is: - ️️Direct and indirect contact The interval when a patient manifests signs and symptoms specific to a type of infection is the... - ️️Illness stage The most important and basic way to break the chain of infection is by - ️️Practicing hand hygiene