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Table of Contents
Title / PageGerms: The Chain of Infection / 4
Germs: The Chain of Infection - Answer Key / 6
Germs: Bloodborne Pathogens / 7
Germs: Bloodborne Pathogens – Answer Key / 9
Germs: Tuberculosis / 10
Germs: Tuberculosis – Answer Key / 12
Protecting Yourself: Standard Precautions / 13
Protecting Yourself: Standard Precautions – Answer Key / 14
Protecting Yourself: Handwashing / 15
Protecting Yourself: Handwashing – Answer Key / 17
Protecting Yourself: PPE / 18
Protecting Yourself: PPE – Answer Key / 21
Protecting Yourself: Safe Work Practices / 22
Protecting Yourself: Safe Work Practices – Answer Key / 26
Transmission Based Precautions: General Overview / 27
Transmission Based Precautions: General Overview – Answer Key / 28
Transmission Based Precautions: Airborne Precautions / 29
Transmission Based Precautions: Airborne Precautions – Answer Key / 31
Transmission Based Precautions: Droplet Precautions / 32
Transmission Based Precautions: Droplet Precautions – Answer Key / 34
Transmission Based Precautions: Contact Precautions / 35
Transmission Based Precautions: Contact Precautions – Answer Key / 37
Your Health / Your Job: What to do if You’re Exposed / 38
Your Health / Your Job: What to do if You’re Exposed – Answer Key / 40
Your Health / Your Job: Hepatitis B Vaccination / 41
Your Health / Your Job: Hepatitis B Vaccination – Answer Key / 43
Your Health / Your Job: Doing Your Part / 44
Your Health / Your Job: Doing Your Part / 46
Your Health / Your Job: Getting More Information / 47
Your Health / Your Job: Getting More Information – Answer Key / 49
Hazard Communications Standard: Your Right to Know / 50
Hazard Communications Standard: Your Right to Know – Answer Key / 52
Hazard Communications Standard: Identifying Hazardous Chemicals / 53
Hazard Communications Standard: Identifying Hazardous Chemicals -Answer Key / 55
Communication of Hazards: Labels that Communicate: / 56
Communication of Hazards: Labels that Communicate – Answer Key / 58
Communication of Hazards: Material Safety Data Sheets / 59
Communication of Hazards: Material Safety Data Sheets – Answer Key / 60
How to Protect Yourself: PPE / 61
How to Protect Yourself: PPE – Answer Key / 63
How to Protect Yourself: Using Chemicals Safely / 64
How to Protect Yourself: Using chemicals Safely – Answer Key / 65
Chemical Usage: Disinfectants and General Cleaning / 66
Chemical Usage: Disinfectants and General Cleaning – Answer Key / 68
Chemical Usage: Floor Care Chemicals / 69
Chemical Usage: Floor Care Chemicals – Answer Key / 70
Germs: The Chain of Infection
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. If you are exposed to germs, you will always become infected.
□ True
□ False
2. What is the chain of infection?
□ susceptibility
□ barriers
□ four links
3. What does it mean to be a susceptible person?
□ someone who stops the infection
□ someone who cannot fight off the germ
□ someone who causes the infection
4. Susceptible people can include the elderly and newborns.
□ True
□ False
5. Germs can enter your body many ways.
□ True
□ False
6. Germs on your clothing can cause infections.
□ True
□ False
7. Which is the most common way for germs to spread in a health care setting?
□ droplet
□ contact
□ airborne
□ none of the above
8. Airborne germs are very small and can stay in the air for a long time.
□ True
□ False
9. Droplets containing germs travel how far?
□ across a room
□ down a hallway
□ close to patient
10. An example of direct contact transmission is cleaning an object or body fluid spill.
□ True
□ False
11. Which of the following would NOT break the chain of infection?
□ personal protective equipment
□ handwashing
□ eating regular meals
□ surface cleaning
12. People and objects can be sources of infection.
□ True
□ False
Germs: The Chain of Infection
Answer Key
1. False
2. four links
3. someone who cannot fight off the germ
4. True
5. True
6. False
7. contact
8. True
9. close to patient
10. False
11. eating regular meals
12. True
Germs: Bloodborne Pathogens
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. Bloodborne pathogens can be found in blood and other body fluids.
□ True
□ False
2. Everyone who gets Hepatitis B will recover from the infection.
□ True
□ False
3. People who have hepatitis or AIDS have visible symptoms.
□ True
□ False
4. How do bloodborne pathogens enter the body?
□ splashing of body fluids
□ needlestick
□ cut or scrape
□ all of the above
5. What is the most common way bloodborne pathogens can be spread?
□ body fluids on your skin
□ contaminated needlestick
□ splashing of blood or body fluids
6. It is easier to get hepatitis then it is to get AIDS from a needlestick.
□ True
□ False
7. Immediately washing blood or body fluids from skin reduces the risk of infection.
□ True
□ False
8. Safe work practices help reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
□ True
□ False
9. Which germ is NOT a bloodborne pathogen?
□ hepatitis B
□ hepatitis C
□ TB
□ HIV
Germs: Bloodborne Pathogens
Answer Key
1. True
2. False
3. False
4. all of the above
5. contaminated needlestick
6. True
7. True
8. True
9. TB
Germs: Tuberculosis
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. How is tuberculosis spread?
□ surface contact
□ food preparation
□ breathing germs
□ blood or body fluids contact
2. What is the difference between TB infection and disease?
□ TB infection can be spread to others
□ TB disease can be spread to others
□ there is no difference
3. Everyone who gets TB infection will develop TB disease.
□ True
□ False
4. All of the following are symptoms of TB disease except:
□ sweating a lot at night
□ itchy skin
□ coughing up blood
□ a cough that lasts longer than 2 weeks
5. A positive TB skin test means the person has TB disease.
□ True
□ False
6. If you have HIV infection, you shouldn’t work around patients with active TB disease.
□ True
□ False
7. To safely work around a patient with TB you can wear any mask available.
□ True
□ False
8. If you are exposed to TB on the job, how long will it be before a skin test indicates you were infected?
□ three weeks after the exposure
□ ten weeks after exposure
□ six months after the exposure
9. Patients with TB are placed on
□ droplet precautions
□ airborne precautions
□ contact precautions
10. It’s easy to catch TB by working around patients who have it.
□ True
□ False
11. Most people with TB can be cured.
□ True
□ False
Germs: Tuberculosis
Answer Key
1. breathing germs
2. TB disease can be spread to others
3. False
4. itchy skin
5. False
6. True
7. False
8. ten weeks after exposure
9. airborne precautions
10. False
11. True
Protecting Yourself: Standard Precautions
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. Standard Precautions are used:
□ only for patients with an infection
□ for all patients
2. Should Standard Precautions be used when there might be contact with blood or body fluids?
□ Yes
□ No
3. Standard Precautions are only for people taking care of the patient.
□ True
□ False
4. Which of the following is not included in Standard Precautions?
□ personal protective equipment
□ working safely
□ handwashing
□ dietary standards
5. Standard Precautions help prevent the spread of germs found on hands.
□ True
□ False
Protecting Yourself: Standard Precautions
Answer Key
1. for all patients
2. Yes
3. False
4. dietary standards
5. True
Protecting Yourself: Handwashing
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. If you get blood or body fluids on your hands you should:
□ finish the task and then wash them
□ wash them immediately
□ wash them when convenient
2. You don’t need to wash your hands unless they look dirty.
□ True
□ False
3. You do not need to wash your hands before:
□ eating
□ touching a patient
□ handling contact lenses
□ making a phone call
4. You should wash your hands after all except:
□ making a bed
□ touching soiled objects
□ touching patients
□ removing gloves
5. Do you need to wash hands after removing gloves?
□ Yes
□ No
6. How long must hands be washed to remove germs?
□ 5 seconds
□ 10 seconds
□ 30 seconds
7. Handwashing is one of the most important things you can do to protect yourself and others from infection!!
□ True
□ False
8. Wash your hands:
□ between the fingers
□ under fingernails and rings
□ the top and palms of the hands
□ all of the above
9. Which hands are the least likely to hide germs?
□ hands with long nails
□ hands with several rings
□ hands with short, groomed nails
10. With chapped, cut or scraped hands:
□ wear two pair of gloves
□ tell your supervisor
□ use antiseptics
Protecting Yourself: Handwashing
Answer Key
1. wash them immediately
2. False
3. making a phone call
4. making a bed
5. Yes
6. 10 seconds
7. True
8. all of the above
9. hands with sort, groomed nails
10. tell your supervisor
Protecting Yourself: PPE
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. You should wear personal protective equipment to help protect yourself from exposure to blood and body fluids.
□ True
□ False
2. What should you wear to help protect your eyes, nose and mouth?
□ mask
□ eyewear
□ mask and eyewear
3. What should you wear to help avoid getting blood on your arms when cleaning a blood spill?
□ gown
□ apron
□ gloves
4. Which of the following is not personal protective equipment?
□ gloves
□ uniform
□ eyewear
□ face shield
5. To remove disposable gloves without contaminating hands, you should:
□ pull at the fingers, one at a time, first one glove then the other
□ pull the top of the glove over the fingers, while holding it in your gloved hand. Then pull the second glove over your fingers and first glove
□ pull the gloves off using your teeth
□ ask a coworker to help
6. Disposable gloves can be washed and reused if they are not soiled with blood and body fluids.
□ True
□ False
7. If your uniform gets soiled with blood or body fluids, you should:
□ wash it with disinfectant
□ change clothes at home
□ change clothes at shift end
□ change clothes immediately
8. After you remove your gown you should put it:
□ on housekeeping cart
□ in housekeeping closet
□ in the appropriate container
□ on a hook in the patient’s room
9. If your hands become sore or chapped you should:
□ continue to wear gloves and wash hands when necessary
□ stop wearing gloves but wash your hands
□ talk to your supervisor
□ do nothing differently
10. You should not let the outside of your gloves touch your skin when you remove them.
□ True
□ False
11. Should you wash your hands immediately after removing gloves?
□ Yes
□ No
12. Which of the following tasks do NOT require gloves?
□ emptying trash
□ removing soiled linen
□ making a bed
□ cleaning a bathroom
13. Which worker is wearing a mask correctly?
□ worker with mask only over mouth
□ worker with mask with only top strings tied
□ worker with mask tied at top and bottom
14. Which demonstrates the proper way to wear gloves?
□ size
□ fit
□ condition
15. Which picture demonstrates the best way to wear a gown?
□ gown tied at neck
□ gown hanging loose
□ gown tied at neck and waist
Protecting Yourself: PPE
Answer Key
1. True
2. mask and eyewear
3. gown
4. uniform
5. pull the top of the glove over the fingers, while holding it in your gloved hand. Then pull the second glove over your fingers and first glove
6. False
7. change clothes immediately
8. in the appropriate container
9. talk to your supervisor
10. True
11. Yes
12. making a bed
13. worker with mask tied at top and bottom
14. fit
15. gown tied at neck and waist
Protecting Yourself: Safe Work Practices
Test
Check the correct answer.
1. You do not need to wash your hands after:
□ touching soiled objects
□ using the bathroom
□ removing your gloves
□ leaving the lunchroom
2. You do not need to wash your hands before:
□ eating or drinking
□ putting on gloves
□ touching patients
3. Which is a safe place for food storage?
□ housekeeping cart
□ housekeeping closet
□ refrigerator
4. Which picture demonstrates proper handling of a needle and syringe?
□ recap the needle
□ remove the needle
□ pick it up
5. Keep the point of a needle toward your body.
□ True
□ False
6. Which of the following is not a sharp?
□ needles
□ scalpels
□ broken glass
□ IV bag and tubing
7. Which of the following patient room surfaces is least likely to be contaminated?
□ bedrails
□ bedside table
□ toilet
□ window ledge
8. When cleaning up a blood spill:
□ wipe it up with an absorbent towel
□ wipe it up with an absorbent towel and disinfect the surface
□ place a cloth over the spill and clean it up later
9. When cleaning up broken glass:
□ use hands to put in waste container
□ use tools to put in sharps container