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What are the answers to universal precautions blood borne pathogens test?
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Basic hand-washing may prevent many diseases from being transmitted
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What must an employer make available to employees as so to be in compliance with the OSHA bloodborne pathogens standards?
OSHA requires employers to practice universal precautions in order to reduce employees' risk of exposure to blood-borne pathogens.
Which OSHA standard enforces universal precautions?
The blood borne pathogen standard results in the use of Universal Precautions.
Why are universal precautions so important to athletic trainers?
Athletic trainers may be exposed to blood and other potentially infectious materials in the course of their work. Using universal precautions -- treating every athlete as if they might be infected with a bloodborne pathogen -- provides protection for the trainer against HIV, hepatitis, and other blood-borne diseases.
What materials does not require the use of universal precautions a blood b semen c feces d vaginal secretions?
d. vaginal secretions
Need general layperson language on univeral precautions and blood borne pathogens?
Check with companies/orgaizations similar to your own. Most will be happy to share policy/procedural language with you.
What do white blood cells have to do with pathogens?
White blood cells protects us (humans) by preventing pathogens from entering the body.
How dangerous is it to get a tongue piercing and what are the possibilities of infection?
If your piercing is done in a professional studio you should have no problem at all, as long as the piercer knows what he is doing...Pick a place that has a good reputation, is clean and has knowledge of what they are doing... When done with a sterile needle, by someone who is practicing universal precautions*, and knows what to do...you should have no problems at all.... *Universal precautions means that the operator has had a recent blood borne pathogens course and is putting what he learned in that course to work...wearing sterile gloves, using sterile clamps, jewelry, needles, properly cleansing the skin, {a wipe with a alcohol pad is NOT properly cleansing the skin...} Hope this helps
What surrounds and destroys pathogens in the blood?
White blood cells
What is responsible for defending blood against the pathogens?
White blood cells ingest the pathogens to prevent them from harming the human body
If the white blood cells are not able to stop invading pathogens?
the skin keeps out most pathogens
What blood types can donate and receive from other blood types?
O- blood used to be considered the universal blood donor but now medicine knows that there are other factors in the blood that can cause rejection from the body.http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/blood-transfusion/expert-answers/universal-blood-donor-type/faq-20058229
What bodily fluids can carry pathogens?
blood
