Gloves are worn for three important reasons. What is one of them?
What will be an ideal response?
First, gloves provide a protective barrier and prevent gross contamination of the hands when touching blood, body fluids, secretions, excretions, mucous membranes, and nonintact skin. Second, gloves are worn to reduce the likelihood of microorganisms on the hands of personnel being transmitted to patients during invasive or other patient-care procedures that involve touching a patient's mucous membranes and non-intact skin. Third, gloves are worn to reduce the likelihood that hands of personnel contaminated with microorganisms from patients or fomites are not transmitting microorganisms to another patient.
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A) C3 B) C1 C) C6 D) C7
Which of the following techniques is the BEST demonstration of proper body mechanics?
A. Keep heavy weights as far away from your body as possible B. Lift with your legs, not your back C. Always move patients without assistance D. Face in the opposite direction that you intend to move
Signs of patient ________ may be the result of Alzheimer's disease, senility, depression, head injury, or misuse of medications or alcohol.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
You are a registrar in the admitting office of a hospital; a patient presents to register for an outpatient laboratory test. What will you first access to determine if that patient has ever been seen at that hospital before, or whether you must register him for the first time?
A. Master Patient (Person) Index B. Diagnosis Index C. Account Summary D. Master List