PN 1006 Skills Exam Questions With Correct Answers.
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PN 1006 Skills Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
What is the first priority of nursing? - answerPreventing Infection
The most important primary prevention of passing microorganisms? - answerHand washing
Microorganisms that cause infection in humans are referred to as? - answerPathogens
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PN 1006 Skills Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
What is the first priority of nursing? - answer✔Preventing Infection
The most important primary prevention of passing microorganisms? - answer✔Hand washing
Microorganisms that cause infection in humans are referred to as? - answer✔Pathogens
Minuscule living bodies that cannot be seen without a microscope and can cause a variety of
infections? - answer✔Microorganism
Microorganisms that live in, or on our bodies, performing needed functions to protect us from
harmful pathogens as well as helping us break down and digest foods? - answer✔Normal flora
and fauna
What does normal flora and fauna mean? - answer✔tiny plants and animals found in the human
body
What does nonpathogenic mean? - answer✔doesn't cause harm and usually referred to the
normal flora/fauna
One-celled microorganisms found virtually everywhere, including the human body? -
answer✔Bacteria
When you take a culture and send it to the lab to have it identified? - answer✔C & S
What is C & S? - answer✔Culture and sensitivity test
these are usually picked up during brief contact with a contaminated object; carried over -
answer✔Transient microbes
Are often spread through the bites of insects, such as ticks, and mites. - answer✔Rickettsia
An organism that transmits disease by conveying pathogens from one host to another -
answer✔Vector
tiny parasites that live within the cells of the host and reproduce there? - answer✔Viruses
Treated by antiparasitic drug - answer✔Protozoas that remain in the GI tract
example of fungi - answer✔mushroom, yeast, mold, and ringworms
Made be made up of one or more cells - answer✔Fungi
Can cause a systemic spread throughout the entire body - answer✔Fungal infections
are parasitic worms that can inhibit the GI tract of humans? - answer✔Helminths
How are helminths transmitted? - answer✔fecal to oral
chain of infection - answer✔infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of transmission,
portal of entry, susceptible host
A nursing intervention for kids to help prevent worms would be? - answer✔Cutting and
keeping nails short
Seen in clusters and are similar to grapes in appearance, sphere-shaped bacteria? -
answer✔Staphylococci
singular sphere-shaped bacteria - answer✔coccus
appear in chains, like a bead necklace and are then referred to as - answer✔streptococci
May appear in pairs, like two balls side by side, which are described as - answer✔diplococci
rod-shaped bacteria, that have a log-like appearance and may vary in length - answer✔Bacilli
(bacillus for singular)
long cells that are spiral or coil, similar to a curl of long hair - answer✔Spirilla (spirillum for
singular)
What is the dx of choice for MRSA? - answer✔Vancomycin
What does VRE stand for? - answer✔vancomycin resistant enterococcus
Gram-positive bacillus, spore forming; severe diarrhea; also called pseudomembranous
enterocolitis - answer✔Clostridium difficile
What 2 antibiotics will treat C. diff - answer✔Vancomycin and metronidazole
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