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1. Facts & Terms Anatomy & Physiology Basic Principles Isolation 100pt 100pt 100pt 100pt 200pt 200pt 200pt 200pt 300pt 300pt 300pt 300pt Jeopardy 400pt 400pt 400pt 400pt 500pt 500pt 500pt 500pt 600pt 600pt 600pt 600pt

2. What is a nosocomial infection?

3. Acquired at a health care facility (nursing home, hospital etc.)

4. Which disease is health care workers more at risk of contacting/be exposed to Hepatitis B or AIDS?

5. Hepatitis B

6. Define a micro-organism.

7. Small living plant or animal seen only by a microscope, may be disease causing or not, are everywhere.

8. Name THREE things a micro-organism needs to live. (Hint: what kind of environment do they like?)

9. Oxygen, warmth, darkness, water, food/nourishment.

10. What is the difference between AIDS and HIV?

11. AIDS is when the person actually is sick with the disease. HIV is when the person is infected with the virus but doesn’t show signs of the illness.

12. True or False: The skin is considered the largest organ of the body and helps keep out micro-organisms.

13. True Need intact skin

14. Name TWO changes to the skin that occur with aging that put the elderly at increased risk of infection.

15. Thins, fragile, dry, lose subcutaneous tissue.

16. What organ does hepatitis damage and what is the difference between sterilizing and disinfecting?

17. Liver. Sterilizing kills all micro-organisms, can’t be done to living tissue. Disinfecting decreases the number of micro-organisms.

18. Another name for a white blood cell is a leukocyte. True of False What is the function of the white blood cell?

19. True Fights infections, number of WBC’s actually increase at first sign of infection.

20. What is the difference between a local infection and a systemic infection?

21. A local infection is just at a specific site-wound. A systemic infection has spread throughout the body.

22. Name at least THREE incidences while at work that an employee should wash their hands.

23. Before/after eating or smoking, after using the restroom, after direct contact with resident, after removing gloves, after covering mouth to sneeze or cough.

24. How long should you scrub when washing your hands? True or False-You should use a paper towel to turn the faucet off and then use it to dry your hands.

25. 10-15 seconds or longer with exposure to body fluids/contamination. False-It is considered dirty and needs to be disposed of.

26. Name TWO ways that a germ can get into the body and TWO ways that germs are spread.

27. Nose, mouth, eyes, any body opening, skin wound • Direct contact-touch, body fluids • Airborne-coughing/sneezing • Food/fluids

28. How does our nose decrease our risk of infections? Name TWO things a CMA or nurse can do while passing meds to decrease the spread of germs/micro-organisms

29. Nasal hairs filter the air we breathe. Don’t touch the pills, wash or use alcohol gel after each resident, keep cart wiped clean, encourage fluids, don’t use pills dropped on the floor.

30. Place the steps of giving peri-care in correct order.

31. Gather all needed equipment and wash hands • Apply gloves • Expose only area cleaning • Remove any bulk stool • Wipe front to back • Use new part of cloth with each wipe • Wash hands and apply gloves or have 2nd caregiver adjust clean pad and clothes • Remove gloves and wash hands

32. How often/when are gloves to be changed and what is disposed of in the biohazard waste?

33. When going from dirty to clean • equipment or touching own hair etc. • When changing area of body • If become damaged/torn • Between residents and resident rooms • Anything contaminated with body • fluid-usually saturated

34. How do you remove gloves? What does standard or universal precautions mean?

35. Turn inside out as you remove them. Treat everyone the same, use protective gear as needed.

36. When should you wear a mask or face shield and when should you change your mask?

37. Whenever there is a risk of splashing/spraying of body fluids, and airbourne contamination. When it becomes damp (from breathing).

38. Why/when is reverse isolation used?

39. When the residents immune system is low and they are at risk of getting an infection, certain diseases or meds that lower the immune system, protects the resident.

40. What are psychosocial concerns/needs of someone in isolation?

41. Can effect their self esteem, be embarrassing, fear, loneliness, boredom, confusion.

42. True or False: Employers must offer the Hept B vaccine free of charge to all employees at risk. How many injections are given for the Hept B vaccination?

43. True Within 10 days, free of charge and involves 3 injections, the initial shot, 1 given a month later and the third given 6 months after the second.

44. True or False: E-coli (escherichia coli) is a bacteria that is normally found in the intestines but can cause an infection when spread to the urinary tract.

45. True Often occurs during peri-care.

46. What should an employee do if they get body fluids splashed on them?

47. Rinse area immediately and report to charge nurse for follow up per policy.

48. What is the proper way to dispose of a needle/syringe after giving an injection?

49. Do not recap/bend or break the needle, dispose of in a sharps container that is puncture proof, leak proof, biohazard marked container.

50. References Gauwitz, Donna F., RN, MS and Bayt, Phyllis Theiss, RN, BS, CMA. (2000). Administering Medications: Pharmacology for Health Careers, Fourth Edition. Columbus, OH: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Companies.  Sorrentino, Sheila A., RN, PhD and Gorek, Bernie, RNC, GNP, MA. (1999). Long-Term Care Assistants, Third Edition. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc. Jeopardy Game Template adapted from the work of Susan Collins and Eleanor Savko, District Resource Teachers for Hardin County Schools: www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/sbjarea/math/MathJeopardy.htm