A broken glass suction bottle is returned to Decontamination. Which of the following should the technician do?
Place it in an appropriate rigid
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Safety Data Sheets (SDS) provide health and safety hazard and risk information on which of the following?
Chemical
Which of the following generally describes the correct sequence for traffic workflow in areas in which medical devices are processed?
Decontamination, Assembly, Packaging, Sterilization, Sterile Storage
The MAJOR reason why acrylic nails are not permitted to be worn in the sterile processing department is because they can
Allow fungus to grow beneath them
Which of the following agencies would approve the disinfectants used on floors and walls in the Sterile Processing Department?
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Every healthcare facility has an organizational structure, or chart, that outlines
Departmental authority relationships
"Clean to dirty" is a sterile processing department term used to describe
Work flow
What are the major physical areas of a typical Sterile Processing Department?
Decontamination, Assembly, Preparation and Packaging, Sterilization, and Sterile Storage
Loose fitting clothing and jewelry should NOT be worn in sterile processing because it
Can get caught in moving equipment
Hair coverings are REQUIRED
In all areas of the department
Decontamination procedures
Reduce contamination to permit reprocessed medical devices to be sterilized
A patient contracts an infection from an improperly sterilized surgical instrument. This is an example of
A healthcare acquired infection
Coronary artery bypass surgery may be performed on patients with
Arteriosclerosis
All of the following are classified as critical medical devices EXCEPT
Thermometers
The function of the gastrointestinal system is to
Provide the body with nutrients
A liver biopsy would be performed to check for which disease?
Hepatitis C Virus
The growth of pathogenic bacteria in living tissue is called
Sepsis
Nosocomial infections can be prevented by all the following EXCEPT
Increasing the patient length of stay
Healthcare workers are most likely to be infected by which of the following agents?
Hepatitis B
A staff member brings several contaminated trays to the Sterile Processing Department in a cart and requests that replacement trays be put on the same cart. The technician should
Clean and dry the transport cart and send it to DIstribution for the trays
When manual cleaning devices, all of the following personal protective equipment should be worn EXCEPT
A plastic apron over the scrub suit
Which of the following BEST describes the manual cleaning process of surgical instruments?
Cleaning/brushing the instrument beneath the water level
A technician working in Decontamination notices that the maintenance person working on the washer/sterilizer did not remove the barrier attire when the person left the area to get additional tools. The technician should
Report the problem to your supervisor
while delivering sterile supplies to multiple nursing units, the tech is asked to take an opened/used tray to decon, best procedure?
Return for the used tray after completing all deliveries, using the appropriate collection cart
When preparing a set of instruments for processing in a washer/decontaminator, the instruments should be positioned with the
Retractors on the bottom of the basket and the hand-held instruments on the top
The pH of detergent solution that has been demonstrated to be the safest for cleaning surgical instruments is
Neutral
Which of the following solutions is generally considered MOST appropriate for high level disinfection of semi-critical devices
2% activated glutaraldehyde [Show Less]