68 Whiskey - LPC Exam 2025 Questions
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What is a microorganism?
Living cells found almost everywhere in the environment
What is a pathogen?
Microorganism that causes disease
____________ forming bacteria are the most difficult to control and destroy
Spore
What microorganism needs a host to make a protein and energy?
Viruses
What are standard Precautions?
A combination of universal precautions designed to reduce risk of transmission of pathogens that
involves BSI (Body Substance Isolation).
All patients are considered infected.
What are the three types of transmission based precautions, what do they entail, and what diseases
do they protect against?
Airborne - tiny microorganisms from evaporated in droplets suspended in the air diseases include TB,
measles, chickenpox
Droplet - microorganisms are propelled through the air diseases include meningitis, pneumonia,
streptococcal pharyngitis, and rubella
Contact - direct contact with a susceptible host and an infected person. diseases include respiratory,
skin , and wound infections. Herpes simplex virus
What is reverse isolation and who would be eligible to receive it?
Neutropenic (reverse isolation) precautions are to keep microorganisms from the outside
environment away from a patient with a weakened immune system.
Eligible patients include burns or bone marrow transplants. HIV, patients undergoing chemotherapy
or incredibly ill patients.
'What is surgical asepsis
A sterile technique where no organisms are carried to the patient and microorganisms are destroyed
from surfaces before they can enter the body
