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You Are Considered To Be Exposed To Bloodborne Pathogens

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QUESTION 1

If you are exposed to potentially infectious materials on the job, you may request a vaccine for which bloodborne disease?

ANSWER

Hepatitis B

QUESTION 2

Which of the following materials could contain bloodborne pathogens?

ANSWER

All the material stated

QUESTION 3

If you wear gloves when cleaning up an accident site, it is not necessary to wash your hands afterwards.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 4

Bloodborne pathogens may enter your system through:

ANSWER

All are means of entering your system

QUESTION 5

You should always treat all body fluids as if they are infectious and avoid direct skin contact with them.

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 6

You should never eat, drink, or smoke in a laboratory or other area where there may be potential exposure to bloodborne pathogens.

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 7

If you have blood or potentially infectious materials splashed into your eye, you should flush your eye with clean, running water for ....

ANSWER

15 minutes

QUESTION 8

Uncontaminated sharps may be disposed in regular trash bags.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 9

Needles should never be recapped.

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 10

In an employer's exposure control plan, s/he is required to include a category called 'exposure determination'. This category is best described by which of the following?

ANSWER

Jobs and tasks with greater than normal

QUESTION 11

Epidemiology is:

ANSWER

The medical science behind tracking and

QUESTION 12

Which is NOT a category an employer is required to include in the facility-specific exposure control plan?

ANSWER

Attendance policy

QUESTION 13

Your employer is expected to update the facility-specific exposure control plan for all of the following EXCEPT:

ANSWER

Six months have elapsed since it was last

QUESTION 14

Hepatitis B vaccination provides protection for:

ANSWER

two years

QUESTION 15

Personal protective equipment (PPE) will protect employees from all exposure incidents.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 16

Regarding the hepatitis B vaccine, the employer:

ANSWER

Must provide the vaccine within ten days the vaccine, not the cost of employee to new employees at risk of exposure to time to prepare and administer the blood/OPIM vaccine

QUESTION 17

What is usually the first action in the event of an exposure incident?

ANSWER

Wash the area thoroughly

QUESTION 18

The person to notify in the event of an exposure incident is always the direct supervisor.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 19

Employees exposed to blood or OPIM are asked to consider several things when deciding to take post-exposure preventative medications. Which of the following should the employee EXCLUDE when considering whether to take the medication?

ANSWER

Cost of preventative medication employee was exposed

QUESTION 20

OPIM Stand for ______.

ANSWER

24 hours

QUESTION 21

Biological waste cannot be stored in healthcare settings accessed by the public longer than ________.

ANSWER

Is in violation of OSHA standards

QUESTION 22

John Smith last attended an OSHA bloodborne pathogen training session on June 1st of the previous year. It is now July 1st of the current year. John's employer:

ANSWER

Microscopic organisms present in human blood which cause serious and often fatal disease in humans

QUESTION 23

A bloodborne pathogen can be best defined as:

ANSWER

Transmission occurs by all means stated

QUESTION 24

Bloodborne pathogens can be transmitted:

ANSWER

Treat all human blood and other bodily fluids as if they are infectious for bloodborne pathogens

QUESTION 25

Universal precautions require employees to:

ANSWER

Proper decontamination of spill areas

QUESTION 26

One of the following is NOT an example of an engineering control:

ANSWER

false

QUESTION 27

Use of Personal Protective Equipment, such as gloves or protective clothing guarantees elimination of exposure risk.

ANSWER

Immediately clean up spill before it spreads

QUESTION 28

If you're exposed to blood or other bodily fluids during an accident and it splashes on you, you should do all of the following, EXCEPT:

ANSWER

Left in designated laundry container or receptacle

QUESTION 29

Contaminated clothing should be:

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 30

HBV vaccination is mandatory regardless of your daily job responsibilities.

ANSWER

hepatitis B virus Answer 2: hepatitis C virus Answer 3: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

QUESTION 31

are the 3 diseases addressed by OSHA you need to be cautious of at work.

ANSWER

three

QUESTION 32

_______ dose/doses of hepatitis B vaccine can protect people who may come into contact with the virus.

ANSWER

Sharing food

QUESTION 33

Which of the following ARE ways HIV can be transmitted?

ANSWER

Needlestick Prick

QUESTION 34

What is the most common way workers are exposed to infectious bloodborne pathogens?

ANSWER

Red plastic bag

QUESTION 35

What precaution would you NOT take when cleaning up a spill contaminated with bodily fluids?

ANSWER

HBV attack the ammune system

QUESTION 36

Which statement is FALSE regarding HBV?

ANSWER

Washing hands

QUESTION 37

What is the easiest yet most important hygiene precautions that prevents exposure to bloodborne pathogens?

ANSWER

Put them in an appropriate sharps container.

QUESTION 38

How should you dispose of contaminated sharps, such as glass or needles that have come into contact with blood?

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 39

AIDS is more contagious than hepititis B.

ANSWER

Annually

QUESTION 40

How often should Exposure Control Plans be reviewed and updated?

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 41

There are only 3 bloodborne diseases.

ANSWER

95%

QUESTION 42

The Hepatitis B Vaccination has been proven to prevent the disease in approximately what percentage of those receiving the vaccine.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 43

Disposable PPE can be reused if it is properly decontaminated.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 44

All persons infected with a bloodbome pathogen will begin showing symptoms soon after infection.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 45

A negative HIV test means that you definitely have not been infected.

ANSWER

False

QUESTION 46

If a person tests negative for AIDS, he or she can still transfer the disease.

ANSWER

All are purposes

QUESTION 47

Which of the following purposes does a well-planned AIDS education program serve?

ANSWER

All of the events listed are components

QUESTION 48

A corporate AIDS policy should have which of the following components?

ANSWER

Allow them to work/perform job

QUESTION 49

HIV-positive employees should receive which of the following from the company?

ANSWER

True

QUESTION 50

According to the Centers for Disease Control, there is no single test that can reliably diagnose AIDS.

ANSWER

false

QUESTION 51

AIDS was first reported in the US in mid-1971.

ANSWER

true

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