Dynamics of Healthcare Rutgers Exam Guide
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Grade A+
Pathogens - Answer ✔✔Fungus
Parasites
Rickettsia
Bacteria
Virus
Bacteria - Answer ✔✔Most significant and most commonly observed infection-causing agent
in health care institutions.
Virus - Answer ✔✔Smallest of all microorganisms, visible only with an electronic
microscope.
Vector - Answer ✔✔Animal or insect that carries disease
Chain of Infection - Answer ✔✔1. Reservoir
2. Exit from reservoir
3. Vehicle of transmission
,4. Portal of entry
5. Susceptible host
Reservoir - Answer ✔✔Any place where organisms can grow, person who carries the
pathogen.
Portal of entry - Answer ✔✔Any way the organism enters the body
Susceptible host - Answer ✔✔Anything that has compromised immune system
Vehicle of transmission: - Answer ✔✔Touching with dirty hands, the way by which the
pathogen leaves the reservoir and spreads through the environment.
Exit from reservoir - Answer ✔✔Ex. blood, coughing, talking
2 modes of transmission - Answer ✔✔Direct transmission: physical contact
Indirect transmission: food, infected bugs.
3 types of infected people - Answer ✔✔Carriers of disease but not ill from it
,Stricken by disease
Those incubating the disease but have no symptoms
Sources of disease - Answer ✔✔●Humans, animals, insects
Common Infectious Disease in Health Care Settings:
●Chicken pox
●pneumonia
●common cold
●tuberculosis
●HIV
●AIDS
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - Answer ✔✔●sends regulators to
watch if workers are following the plan
●responsible for ensuring the safety of workers through the enforcement of safety and health
legislation
Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Answer ✔✔● reduce the transmission of microorganisms
in health care settings
● investigate a wide spread of disease
, ● dedicated to the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability
Hill Burton Act - Answer ✔✔Can't turn any patient away
Antisepsis - Answer ✔✔Washing hands. Prevents or inhibits the growth of bacteria
Sterilization - Answer ✔✔Highest level of infection control. Kills everythings such as spores,
virus, bacteria
4 Ways to sterilize - Answer ✔✔Steam, gas under pressures, or dry heat oven, immerse in
chemical solution
Asepsis - Answer ✔✔Completely without germs
Antiseptics - Answer ✔✔Substances that inhibit the growth of microorganisms but don't kill
them.
Anaerobic - Answer ✔✔Bacteria that can live without oxygen
with Questions and Correct Answers/Already
Grade A+
Pathogens - Answer ✔✔Fungus
Parasites
Rickettsia
Bacteria
Virus
Bacteria - Answer ✔✔Most significant and most commonly observed infection-causing agent
in health care institutions.
Virus - Answer ✔✔Smallest of all microorganisms, visible only with an electronic
microscope.
Vector - Answer ✔✔Animal or insect that carries disease
Chain of Infection - Answer ✔✔1. Reservoir
2. Exit from reservoir
3. Vehicle of transmission
,4. Portal of entry
5. Susceptible host
Reservoir - Answer ✔✔Any place where organisms can grow, person who carries the
pathogen.
Portal of entry - Answer ✔✔Any way the organism enters the body
Susceptible host - Answer ✔✔Anything that has compromised immune system
Vehicle of transmission: - Answer ✔✔Touching with dirty hands, the way by which the
pathogen leaves the reservoir and spreads through the environment.
Exit from reservoir - Answer ✔✔Ex. blood, coughing, talking
2 modes of transmission - Answer ✔✔Direct transmission: physical contact
Indirect transmission: food, infected bugs.
3 types of infected people - Answer ✔✔Carriers of disease but not ill from it
,Stricken by disease
Those incubating the disease but have no symptoms
Sources of disease - Answer ✔✔●Humans, animals, insects
Common Infectious Disease in Health Care Settings:
●Chicken pox
●pneumonia
●common cold
●tuberculosis
●HIV
●AIDS
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - Answer ✔✔●sends regulators to
watch if workers are following the plan
●responsible for ensuring the safety of workers through the enforcement of safety and health
legislation
Center for Disease Control (CDC) - Answer ✔✔● reduce the transmission of microorganisms
in health care settings
● investigate a wide spread of disease
, ● dedicated to the prevention and control of disease, injury, and disability
Hill Burton Act - Answer ✔✔Can't turn any patient away
Antisepsis - Answer ✔✔Washing hands. Prevents or inhibits the growth of bacteria
Sterilization - Answer ✔✔Highest level of infection control. Kills everythings such as spores,
virus, bacteria
4 Ways to sterilize - Answer ✔✔Steam, gas under pressures, or dry heat oven, immerse in
chemical solution
Asepsis - Answer ✔✔Completely without germs
Antiseptics - Answer ✔✔Substances that inhibit the growth of microorganisms but don't kill
them.
Anaerobic - Answer ✔✔Bacteria that can live without oxygen
