CKE Patient Safety and Infection Control 1 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: What is the single most effective method for preventing the spread of infection in healthcare settings?
- Wearing gloves at all times
- Hand hygiene (Correct answer)
- Using N95 respirators
- Isolating all patients
Correct answer: Hand hygiene
Hand hygiene—proper handwashing or use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer—is the most effective way to prevent healthcare-associated infections.
Question 2: Which type of precaution is used for patients with diseases transmitted by respiratory droplets?
- Contact precautions
- Airborne precautions
- Droplet precautions (Correct answer)
- Standard precautions
Correct answer: Droplet precautions
Droplet precautions are used for diseases spread by large respiratory droplets, such as influenza and meningitis.
Question 3: What does the 'Five Rights' of medication administration include?
- Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time (Correct answer)
- Right order, right dose, right nurse, right lab, right chart
- Right patient, right diagnosis, right allergy, right nurse, right room
- Right drug, right color, right size, right time, right storage
Correct answer: Right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, right time
The Five Rights of medication administration are: right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time.
Question 4: Which organization publishes the National Patient Safety Goals in the US?
- CDC
- The Joint Commission (Correct answer)
- OSHA
- FDA
Correct answer: The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission publishes annual National Patient Safety Goals to help accredited organizations address specific areas of concern.
Question 5: What is a nosocomial infection?
- An infection acquired before hospital admission
- A hospital-acquired infection (Correct answer)
- An infection caused by fungi only
- A chronic infection present for more than a year
Correct answer: A hospital-acquired infection
A nosocomial infection is a healthcare-associated infection that patients acquire during the course of receiving medical treatment.
Question 6: Standard precautions apply to which of the following?
- Only blood and body fluids
- All patients regardless of infection status (Correct answer)
- Only patients with known infections
- Only surgical patients
Correct answer: All patients regardless of infection status
Standard precautions apply to all patients, regardless of diagnosis, treating all blood, body fluids, and secretions as potentially infectious.
CKE Patient Safety and Infection Control 1
What is the single most effective method for preventing the spread of infection in healthcare settings?