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| Microorgansims | Tiny living plants or animals that cannot be seen with the naked eye |
| Medical Asepsis | Practices used to reduce the number and block the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms which means that the object or area is clean and free of infection |
| Hand Hygiene | Process of cleaning or sanitizing the hands |
| Resident Flora | Normally resides and grows in the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin |
| What is another name for resident flora? | Normal Flora |
| OSHA | Occupational Safety and Health Administration |
| Occupational exposure | A reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with bloodborne pathogesn OPIM |
| OPIM | Other potentially infectious materials |
| Bloodborne Pathogens | Pathogenic microorganisms in human blood that can cause disease in humans |
| Exposure Incident | Specific eye, mouth, or other mucous membrane, nonintact skin, or parenteral contact with blood or OPIM |
| Engineering Controls | Measures that isolate or remove health hazards from the workplace |
| Safer Medical Device | A device that, based on reasonable judgment, would make an exposure incident involving a contaminated sharp less likely |
| Work Practice Controls | Reduce the likelihood of exposure by altering the manner in which a technique is performed |
| Personal protective equipment (PPE) | Clothing or equipment that protects an individual from contact with blood or OPIM |
| What are examples of PPE? | Gloves, chin-length face shields, masks, protective eyewear, laboratory coats, and gowns |
| Regulated medical waste | Waste that may pose a great threat to health and safety if exposed to the public. |
| Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) | Disorder of the immune system that eventually destroys the body’s ability to fight infection. |
| Transient flora | Microorganisms that live and grow on the superficial skin layers or epidermis. (homeless microorganisms) |
| Antiseptic | An agent that functions to kill or stop the growth of microorganisms |
| Parenteral | Piercing of the skin barrier or mucous membranes |
| Blood | Human blood, human blood components, and products made from blood |
| Blood Components | Include: plasma, serum, platelets, and serosanguineous fluid (drainage from wounds) |
| OPIM include: | Semen and vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, pericardial, peritoneal, and amniotic fluids, any body fluid that is visibly contaminated with blood, not identified, saliva in dental procedures, any unfixed human tissue, tissue culture, cells, or fluid known to be HIV infected |
| Contaminated | The presence or reasonably anticipated presence of blood or OPIM on an item or surface |
| Decontamination | The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles |
| Non-intact skin | Skin that has a break in the surface (dermatitis, abrasions, cuts, burns, hangnails, chapping and acne |
| Postexposure prophylaxis | Treatment administered to an individual after exposure to an infectious disease to prevent disease |
| Hepatitis B | Infection of the liver caused by the HBV. Most common means of transmitting hepatitis B are blood and blood components |
| Hepatitis C | Infection of the liver caused by HCV. Most likely means of contracting hepatitis C is through parenteral exposure to contaminated blood through needlesticks and other sharps injuries |
| Opportunistic infection | Infection that results from a defective immune system that cannot defend itself from pathogens normally found in the environment |
| Cilia | Slender, hairlike projections that constantly beat toward the outside to remove microorganism from the body |
| Infection | The condition in which the body, or part of it, is invaded by a pathogen |
| Nonpathogen | A microorganism that does not normally produce disease |
| Optimum Growth Temperature | Temperature at which an organism grows best |
| Pathogen | A disease-producing microorganism |
| pH | Degree to which a solution is acidic or basic |
| Reservoir Host | The organism that becomes infected by a pathogen and serves as a source of transfer of the pathogen to others |
| Susceptiblr | Easily affected; lacking resistance |
| CDC | Center for Disease Control and Prevention |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| Aerobe | A microorganism that needs oxygen to live and grow |
| Anaerobe | A microorganism that grows best in the absence of oxygen |
