37.

Environmental sanitation refers to the study of all factors in man’s physical environment which may
exercise

or may not exercise deleterious effect on his health and well-being. Which of the following is not
included?
a.Safe and Water Supply
b.Proper Excreta and Waste Disposal

c. Food Sanitation

d.Sexual worker’s occupation sanitation program

38. The four R’s of food sanitation includes all of the following, except:

a. Right Source

b. Right Price

c. Right Storage

d. Right Cooking

39. An adequately cooked food is heated with the temperature of:

a.10-60 degrees C

b.70 degrees C

c.100 degrees C

d.150 degrees C

40. For right storage, the following is correct except:

a.Foods should not be stored longer than 2 hours

b.Reheat with 60 degrees centrigrade.

c.Food must not be stored with room temperature

d.No rethawing, if possible.

41.Food establishments in the community shall be appraised as to their sanitary conditions. Which of
the

following is important for the cook or cook helper to have?

a. Inspection

b.Approval of all food sources

c.Updated health services

d.Compliance to health certificate

42. A patient is removed from the other persons because he is susceptible in acquiring a certain disease.
This kind

of isolation is called as:

a. Strict isolation

b. Contact isolation

c. Source isolation

d. Reverse isolation

43. Which of the following is true regarding source isolation?

a.Negative pressure in the roomand positive outside

b.Positive pressure in the room and negative outside

c.Equalized pressure from both areas
d.Negative pressure should be maintained inside and out

44. The restriction of activities of well person that has been exposed to a case of communicable disease
to prevent

disease transmission during the incubation period but without limitation to movements:

a. Complete quarantine

b. Source isolation

c. Surveillance

d. Separation

45.A patient with typhoid fever and have several bouts of diarrheal stool prompts a nurse to use what
kind of

precaution:

a. Contact
b. Reverse Isolation

c. Drainage precaution

d. Enteric precaution

46. Which of the following statements about source isolation is false?

a.Air entering the room is passed through filters

b.The room is under negative air pressure

c.Source isolation is appropriate for patients with meningitis, whooping cough, or influenza
d.Transmission-based precautions will be necessary

47.Which of the following is not part of the standard precaution?

a.Hand washing between patient contacts

b.Placing a patient in a private room having negative air pressure

c.Proper disposal of needles, scalpels and other sharps

d.Wearing gloves, masks, eye protection and gowns when appropriate

48.A patient with suspected tuberculosis has been admitted to the hospital. Which of the following is
not

appropriate?

a. Droplet precautions

b. Source isolation

c. Standard precautions

d.Use of a type of N95 respirator by the health care provider

49. Which of the following precautions doesn’t require any private room?

a. Reverse isolation

b. Strict isolation

c. Droplet precaution

d. Universal precaution

50. Which of the following statements about medical asepsis is false?

a.Disinfection is a medical aseptic technique

b.Hand washing is a medical aseptic technique

c.Medical asepsis is considered a clean technique

d.The goal of medical asepsis is to exclude all microorganisms

51. It is the killing of microorganisms by chemical and physical means. It can be done through dry heat,
moist heat

and radiation:

a. Disinfection

b. Sterilization

c. Sanitation

d. Disinfestation

52. You are caring a client in isolation. After nursing care is done what will you remove first after
handling the

patient?

a. Mask

b. Gown

c. Gloves

d. Bonnet

53.The process of weakening microorganism through consecutive steps of freezing and dessication. This
process

is used for making vaccine:

a.Use of formaldehyde

b. Lyophilization

c. Attenuation

d.Moist heat application

54.The process of rendering surface that has been heavily exposed to infectious pathogen safe to handle
is

known as:
a. Disinfection

b. Decontamination

c. Sterilization

d. Anti-septic

55. When a nurse uses alcohol on the client’s skin before an injection, she uses what kind of chemical-
removing-

microorganism?

a. Antiseptic

b. Disinfectant

c. Decontaminant

d. Antimicrobial

56. The removal of stains and any contaminants from a kitchen utensils done at home is also known as:

a. Sanitization

b. Sanitation

c. Decontamination

d. Disinfection

57.The client with tuberculosis is expelling large amount of sputum. The nurse, every time the client
coughs,

removes the soiled linen and discards the tissues and burns it. This technique is what kind of
disinfection?

a. Terminal

b. Concurrent

c. Longitudinal

d. Post-expulsion

58. The process of filling animal forms through use of gaseous agent.

a.Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)

b. Disinfestation
c. Sanitation

d.Gaseous Desentisization

59. Medical hand washing can be done for ___ and with elbows ___ :

a.10 – 15 seconds: down

b.10 – 15 seconds: up

c.3 -5 minutes: down

d.3 – 5 minutes: up