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Transmission-based Precautions

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A field that is a designated area considered void of all contaminants and microorganisms?
STERILE FIELD
Items that are worn and used as barriers to protect someone who is assisting a patient with a potentially infectious disease?
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT (PPE)
A technique that attempts to contain pathogens to a specific area, object or person?
MEDICAL ASEPSIS
A term used to describe an area, surface or item coming in contact with something that is not sterile?
CONTAMINATION
The elimination of the microorganisms that cause infection and the creation of a sterile field?
ASEPSIS
What is the primary factor in the prevention of nosocomial infection?
PROPER HAND WASHING
What is a nosocomial infection?
AN INFECTION THAT IS ACQUIRED DURING A HOSPITALIZATION
What distance should you maintain from a patient that has droplet precautions?
AT LEAST THREE FEET

(THE INFECTIOUS AGENTS (DROPLETS) DO NOT SUSPEND IN THE AIR AND TRAVEL ONLY THREE FEET OR LESS)
Examples of airborne infections?
*MEASLES
*VARICELLA
*TUBERCULOSIS
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