HERZING FUNDAMENTALS EXAM 2024/2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE ANSWERS
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HERZING FUNDAMENTALS
What is infection? - ACCURATE ANSWERS invasion or colonization of the body by pathogens
what is the goal of the infection cycle? - ACCURATE ANSWERS to break the links of chain to end the cycle
What are the infection cycle steps? - ACCURATE ANSWERS - infectious agent
- reservoir
- portal of...
HERZING FUNDAMENTALS EXAM
2024/2025
HERZING FUNDAMENTALS EXAM 2024/2025 WITH GUARANTEED ACCURATE
ANSWERS
What is infection? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ invasion or
colonization of the body by pathogens
what is the goal of the infection cycle? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ to
break the links of chain to end the cycle
What are the infection cycle steps? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ -
infectious agent
- reservoir
- portal of exit
- means of transmission
,- portal of entry
- susceptible host
what is infectious agent? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ - Bacteria:
most common
- Virus: smallest
- Fungi: mold/yeast (in air, soil, water)
- Aerobic: require O2 to live and grow
- Anaerobic: live w/o O2
what is the reservoir? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ growth and
multiplication of microorganisms in their natural habitat
- people
- animals
- soil
- food, water, milk
- inanimate objects
what is the portal of exit? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ escape
route/how organism escapes from reservoir
- respiratory, GI, GU, and breaks in skin
- blood and tissue
- aka secretions from humans
, what is the means of transmission? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ how
it transmits
- equipment, contact, excretion an secretions
- direct or indirect, airborne or droplet
what is direct transmission? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ person to
person
- touching or kissing
what is indirect transmission? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Person to
object
- with vector (living creature that transmits to human)
- fomite (inanimate object transmits - e.g. dirty towel)
What is droplet transmission? - ACCURATE ANSWERS✔✔ Rubella,
Mumps, Diphtheria, flu, sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, strep, scarlet
fever, pertussis
-greater than 5 cm
- wear surgical mask
- private room or pt with same illness
- door may be open
- wear PPE for contact
- transport pt only prn and wear mask
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