NUR 311 Midterm Exam Questions and Correct Answers
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NUR 311
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NUR 311
Miasmic Theory of Disease Transmission belief that infection spread through smell/fumes; incorrect but connected sanitation to disease
Florence Nightingale practiced segregation, disinfection, and ventilation
Antony van Leeuwenhoek first person observed "animalcules" = microorganisms; didn't link...
NUR 311 Midterm Exam Questions and
Correct Answers
Miasmic Theory of Disease Transmission ✅belief that infection spread through
smell/fumes; incorrect but connected sanitation to disease
Florence Nightingale ✅practiced segregation, disinfection, and ventilation
Antony van Leeuwenhoek ✅first person observed "animalcules" = microorganisms;
didn't link them to disease, only observed
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis ✅reduced illness and death rate from puerperal fever by
handwashing by chlorinated lime water before procedures
Edward Jenner ✅discovered science of immunology; cowpox and smallpox
Alexander Fleming ✅discovered first antibiotic, Penicillin
Louis Pasteur ✅disrupted spontaneous generation theory (belief that microorganisms
grew spontaneously) by growing microorganisms in broths
Robert Koch ✅built on Pasteur's work, showed specific microorganisms cause specific
diseases
Joseph Lester ✅Scottish surgeon, (surgical asepsis) reduced surgical mortality by
using sterile technique & antiseptic agents (carbolic acid)
key IPC functions for nurses ✅1. evaluating risk and presence of contagions
2. initiating and complying with evidence-based practice to avoid transmission
3. screen, control, and contain patients with infections
Chain of Infection ✅1. infections agent
2. reservoir
3. portal of exit
4. method of transmission
5. portal of entry
6. susceptible host
types of infectious agents ✅bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, prions
3 presentations of infectious agents ✅1. colonization (asymptomatic)
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