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- 2. Croup in babies is often caused by this
- 5. This term describes putting on PPE
- 10. When bacteriology department isolates an antibiotic resistant organism, they call infection control
- 11. Cdifficile can be ruled out after three stool samples collected on different
- 12. This is your best defence against infection
- 14. The backs of isolation room signs have this information
- 16. Instruments must be subjected to this at point of care
- 17. Provincial infectuous disease advisory committee is abbreviated as
- 18. Additional Precautions are required if you have identified a potential risk of
- 21. This virus causes vomitting and diarrhea, and spreads very easily from person to person. It can cause outbreaks on cruise ships and in healthcare facilities.
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- 1. The Infection Control manual has a chart which summarizes additional precautions needed based on diagnosis or symptoms, this chart is
- 3. You must do this appropriately to maintain sterility in reprocessed medical devices
- 4. This virus causes respiratory infections, typically between November and April
- 6. it takes at least this long to get a negative vre result.
- 7. Infection control monitors lab cultures and information from nursing units to identify clusters and
- 8. a patient on an acute care floor with this will remain on contact precautions for the duration of admission.
- 9. When caring for someone with influenza, a mask is not sufficient to protect you, don't forget to protect your
- 13. This type of precautions is used when routine precautions are not sufficient to prevent the transmission of microorganisms
- 14. This type of event could compromise the sterility of a reprocessed medical instrument
- 15. soiled surgical instruments awaiting reprocessing should never be soaked in
- 19. this diagnosis requires serial negative swabs before discontinuing additional precautions
- 20. Medical device reprocessing can be abbreviated as