Infection Control

1. Be sure reusable equipment is ____ before you use it on another patient
5. The level of precautions that relates to all aspects of patient care
8. should be trimmed and clean at all times
9. Process that destroys all microorganisms including spores and viruses
10. The separation of infected persons from others
13. Small living organism not visible to the naked eye
14. You should wash your hands for at least this many seconds
15. Infections acquired in health care facility
16. The number one intervention to break the chain of infection
19. What is a common bacteria that is antibody resistant
20. Never wear the same pair of gloves for the care of more then ____ patient
21. These precautions include gowns, gloves, masks, and eyewear

2. Your body's first line of defense against infection
3. Absence of pathogens
4. When using an alcohol based hand sanitizer - hands should be rubbed together covering all surfaces until the hands are ___
6. Use of gloves reduces the risk of ____ of health care workers hands with blood and other body fluids
7. Cleaning your hands before touching a patient protects them against harmful ______ carried on your hands
11. Extremely small drops of liquid such as occurs with a sneeze
12. practice hand hygiene whenever gloves are ____
16. Hand _____ is the undisputed single most effective infection control measure in the prevention of HAI's
17. Standard precautions and transmission based precautions are designed to prevent the ____ of infectious microorganisms
18. Your patient has vomited---you should don a ____ and gloves per Standard Precautions