Safe Injection Practices
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Injection safety, or safe injection practices, is a set of measures taken to perform injections in an optimally safe manner for patients, healthcare personnel, and others.
Questions and Answers
- 1.Do not use medications packaged as _______-________ for more than one patient. (Tip-Only type one of the two possible solutions in lower case and hyphenated.)
- 2.Syringes can be reused as long as you don't get blood in it.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 3.Unsafe injection practices have devastating consequences such as: (select all that apply)
- A.
Patient illness and death
- B.
Loss of clinician licenses
- C.
Legal charges/malpractice suits
- D.
Criminal charges
- E.
The Air Force cannot be sued for medical malpractice
- 4.Single-dose or single-use vials should not be used for more than one patient regardless of how much medicine is remaining.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 5.Germs such as hepatitis C virus, staph, and MRSA are invisible to the naked eye but can easily infect patients even when present in microscopic quantities.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 6.In just one clinic 50,000 people were exposed to infection due to the reuse of syringes. How many patients were they able to notify?
- A.
1,000 patients
- B.
Half the patients
- C.
All the patients were notified
- D.
They weren't able to contact any of the patients.
- 7.It is okay to reuse a syringe as long as you are only using it to draw up medications or vaccines.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 8.Follow proper infection control practices and maintain __________ technique during the preparation and administration of injected medications.
- 9.Changing the needle makes a syringe safe for reuse.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.While preparing a medication you drop the syringe on the floor. What should your next action be?
- A.
You pick it up in under 5 seconds to prevent the transfer of germs.
- B.
You discard it.
- C.
You rinse it off in the sink with soap and water.
- D.
You wipe it off with Sani-Wipes to disinfect it.
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