PN 111 Nursing Fundamentals Final Exam WITH ANSWERS.

PN 111 Nursing Fundamentals Final Exam
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WITH ANSWERS
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Handwashing - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The single most effective |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


way to stop the spread of infection
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Medical Asepsis - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Reducing the number
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of organisms in an environment (ex. cleaning the tub with
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disinfectant before giving a patient a bath) |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\




Sterilization - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Breaks the chain of |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


infection at its various links of reservoir and the portal exit
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(removes all organisms) |\ |\




Standard Precautions are? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The principle
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of infection control that considers every client's blood and body
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fluid infectious
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When should you wash your hands? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Between patients and foaming in and out of patient's rooms
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Why should you hold your hands lower than your forearms while
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handwashing? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Water flows from the |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


least contaminated to the most contaminated
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,Hand hygiene - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Breaks the chain of
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infection


Nosocomial infections - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Hospital-acquired
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infections
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What are the phases of infection? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Pathogen, reservoir, portal of exit, means of transmission, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


portal of entry, new host
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When is a patient most contagious? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Within the first 24 hours and 24 hours after starting
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medication


Wear gown, gloves, and educate the family when? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Caring for a contagious person (ex. C-diff)
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Standard Precautions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Group of safety
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measures performed to prevent the transmission of pathogens
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found in the blood and body fluids (ex. performing hand hygiene,
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wearing appropriate protective equipment if exposure is possible,
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and using cough etiquette)
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Transmission-Based Precautions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Used to |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


prevent the spread of known infection to patients or health care
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staff and are used when a patient has a communicable illness
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that can be spread through contact, respiratory droplets, or the
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air. (Wearing gowns, gloves, masks, eye protection, and possibly
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head covers are used to prevent transmission of pathogens)
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, Isolation Precautions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Placing an
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infectious patient in a private room with a private toilet and
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equipment breaks the chain of infection the portal of exit. All
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equipment taken into the rooms for use must be left in the room
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for this patient's use only and sterilized before used for any other
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patients.
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Droplet Precautions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Use when in close
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contact with respiratory or mucous membrane secretions
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Proper way to remove a gown? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Grasp
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the neckline to remove
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Always use what to clean areas that are used by multiple
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patients? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A disinfectant (ex. bathtub,
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bedside tables) |\




How often should person cares be done? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔A minimum of every morning and evening
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Morning routine cares include? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Assisting
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with bath, toileting, oral care, hair care, dressing, bedding
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HS (Night Cares) include? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Assist to
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prepare for sleep, assist with toileting, offer fluids if allowed,
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straighten room, dim lights, back massage |\ |\ |\ |\ |\