Infection - The invasion and reproduction of pathogenic or disease-causing organisms inside the body
Cohort Nursing - Involves one nurse or group of nurses exclusively caring for the identified infected cases; while other nurses care the unaffected patients.
Normal flora - Microorganisms that...
NSB132 Questions and Answers 2024
Infection - The invasion and reproduction of pathogenic or disease-causing
organisms inside the body
Cohort Nursing - Involves one nurse or group of nurses exclusively caring for the
identified infected cases; while other nurses care the unaffected patients.
Normal flora - Microorganisms that reside in or on the body without causing
disease
Pathogens - Microorganisms that can cause disease (bacteria, virus, fungus,
parasite)
Vector - Agent that carries and transmits infectious pathogens
Chain of infection - infectious agent, reservoir, portal of exit, mode of
transmission, portal of entry, susceptible host
First line of defense - Intact skin, mucous membranes and their secretions, normal
microbiota
Second line of defense - Inflammatory response and phagocytosis
Third line of defense - Immune Response (B cells and T cells)
Norovirus - A contagious gastrointestinal illness that causes the stomach flu
, Influenza - Infectious disease caused by a virus spread by droplet infection
(coughing and sneezing)
Chicken pox - Highly contagious viral infection causing an itchy, blister-like rash
on the skin
Shingles - Viral disease that affects the peripheral nerves and causes blisters on the
skin that follow the course of the affected nerves
Scabies - contagious, parasitic infection of the skin with intense pruritus (itching)
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) - An infection caused by
specific bacteria that has become resistant to many antibiotics
VRE (vancomycin-resistant enterococcus) - A strain of the bacterium enterococcus
that is resistant to the powerful antibiotic vancomycin; infections occur when the
bacteria enter the bloodstream, urinary tract, or surgical wounds
Pharmacokinetics - How medications enter the body, target a desired site, are
metabolised and excreted
Pharmacodynamics - How a drug acts in the body to give the desired outcome
Polypharmacy - The use of multiple medications and/or the administration of more
medications than are clinically indicated
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