- Check the patient's room number.
- Verify the medication's expiration date.
- Confirm the patient's identity using two identifiers.
- Ask the patient if they have any allergies.
No category found.
- Bounding peripheral pulses and jugular vein distention.
- Increased urine output and decreased specific gravity.
- Dry mucous membranes, decreased skin turgor, and concentrated urine.
- Bradycardia and elevated blood pressure.
- Incubation period
- Prodromal period
- Illness period
- Convalescence period
- Wear a N95 respirator mask.
- Place the patient in a negative pressure room.
- Maintain at least 3 feet distance from the patient and wear a surgical mask.
- Use contact precautions only.
- Individual, free-floating bacteria.
- Communities of microorganisms encased in an extracellular matrix.
- Rapidly dividing fungal cells.
- Viruses rapidly replicating within host cells.
- Incubation period
- Prodromal period
- Illness period
- Convalescence period
- Bloodstream
- Urinary tract
- Central nervous system
- Respiratory tract
- Is caused by the same pathogen as the primary infection.
- Occurs after a primary infection, often due to a weakened immune system or altered microbiota.
- Is always less severe than the primary infection.
- Is not related to the primary infection.
- Bacteriology
- Mycology
- Parasitology
- Virology
- Airborne droplets
- Fomites
- Direct contact transmission
- Vector-borne transmission
- Sterilization
- Disinfection
- Pasteurization
- Autoclaving
- Cell wall
- Capsule
- Envelope
- Capsid
- Disinfection
- Sterilization
- Antisepsis
- Sanitization
- Rapid patient recovery.
- Accurate microbial identification.
- Reduced antibiotic resistance.
- Improved patient comfort.
- Endotoxin
- Exotoxin
- Enterotoxin
- Hemolysin
- Airborne droplets
- Contaminated food and water
- Direct contact with contaminated hands
- Vectors
- The type of bacteria present.
- The specific antibiotic that the bacteria are susceptible to.
- The number of bacteria present.
- The patient's immune response to the bacteria.
- Rapid onset and short duration.
- The pathogen remaining in the body for long periods, often causing chronic symptoms.
- A rapid immune response and complete pathogen clearance.
- No symptoms ever appearing.
