Across
- 1. What is the simplest and most effective way to reduce the incidence of infections?(Two words, no space)
- 3. You must perform hand hygiene before donning and after ______ gloves.
- 5. What department should you contact if your skin is reacting to the supplied hand hygiene products?
- 7. The effect a petroleum-based lotion would have on gloves?
- 8. Method of transmission of infection generated from the respiratory tract of source during coughing or sneezing
- 10. The yearly deaths from hospital associated infections equals the combined total of yearly deaths from MVAs and ________ cancer.
- 11. Common word for microbe
- 13. How infection is transported from one person to another
- 14. What percentage of common infections are spread through healthcare workers, patients, and visitors?
- 15. Ingredients put into hand sanitizers to keep skin from drying out
Down
- 2. An infection acquired in a healthcare facility
- 4. Squames cells are spread through contact with patients and surfaces. Which bacteria species does NOT survive in these conditions: staphylococci, fusobacterium, enterococci, Clostridium difficile.
- 6. When a patient is infected with C. diff., what is the change in hand hygiene practices that must occur to prevent the spread of C.diff.? (Two words, no space)
- 9. Out of 25,066 patient days in the 2016/17 fiscal year, how many new healthcare-associated C. diff. cases were found at EKH?
- 12. Method of transmission of infection that requires a patient to be isolated in a negative pressure room