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How are airborne particles dispersed?
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What is a nosocomial infection?
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What are work practice controls?
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What is Means of Transmission?
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What is vehicle transmission?
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What is droplet transmission?
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What are some examples of vehicle transmission?
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What is an exit pathway?
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What is the size of airborne particles?
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List examples of entry pathways.
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Examples of exit pathways.
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What is a susceptible host?
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Why is it helpful to warm a site for a heel stick?
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What are some factors that affect susceptibility?
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What is an infectious agent?
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What is the first action to take to aid a victim of shock?
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In droplet transmission, how large are the droplets?
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What is a reservoir?
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What is the difference between airborne and droplet transmission?
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Which agency is responsible PPE compliance?
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Pathogenic microbe responsible for causing infection.
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Age, health, immune status.
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Practices that change the way tasks are performed to reduce likelihood of BBP exposure.
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Patient infections acquired in hospitals.
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OSHA
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Larger than 5 um in diameter.
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Less than 5um in diameter.
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Transmission of an infectious agent through contaminated food, water, or drugs.
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Body openings: Mucous membranes of eyes, nose and mouth, and breaks in the skin.
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Someone with a decreased ability to resist infection.
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Transfer of infectious agent in mucous membranes of mouth, nose, or conjunctiva.
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Salmonella from contaminated chicken, shigella from contaminated drinking water.
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Sneezing, coughing, talking, and activities that produce aerosols.
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Maintain an open airway.
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Increased blood flow to the area.
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Method an infectious agent uses to travel from a reservoir to a susceptible host.
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Way for an infectious agent to leave a host.
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Blood. exudates, excretions, secretions.
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Droplet transmission droplets normally travel less than 10 ft and do not remain suspended in the air (too large). Airborne transmission involves microbes that float through the air (smaller particles)
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Place where a microbe can survive, grow, or multiply.
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Examples of infectious agents.
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Condition of being free of contamination or germs.
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Humans, animals, food, water, soil, and contaminated articles and equipment.

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