Sterile Processing Practice Exam
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What exactly does the SPD do? ✔✔1. receives
2. cleans
3. decontaminate
4. assemble
5. disinfect
6 sterilize reusable and surgical devices for s
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Sterile Processing Practice Exam
Questions and Answers Already Passed
What exactly does the SPD do? ✔✔1. receives
2. cleans
3. decontaminate
4. assemble
5. disinfect
6 sterilize reusable and surgical devices for safe and effective patient care
What preferred name is recommended by the SPD? ✔✔Sterile Processing
What is SPD responsible for ? ✔✔providing dependable, reliable services to enhance the quality
of patient care
Work Flow ✔✔how the work progresses through the department or processing area. (everything
begins in the decontamination area, where medical devices are cleaned) DIRTY TO CLEAN
FLOW should never be circumvented
People Flow ✔✔how people move through the department or processing area
Traffic Control ✔✔controlling access to SPD ( who comes in and out )
Who requires SPD facilities to be prepared for disasters? ✔✔The Joint Commision
Hippocratic Oath ✔✔the ideal of doing no harm to another person
Regulations ✔✔a principle, rule or law designed to control or govern behavior
Standard ✔✔is an established norm determined by opinion, authority, research, and/or theory
Recommended Practices ✔✔statements of sound principles of practice that are based upon
scientific data and the opinions of experts
Validation ✔✔documented procedure for obtaining, recording, and interpreting the results
required to establish that a process will consistently yield product complying with predetermined
specification. Validation is performed by MANUFACTURERS, not the end user
User vereification ✔✔Documented procedures, performed in the user environment for obtaining
recording, and interpreting the results required to establish that predetermined specification have
been met (Users are facility personnel who reprocess or use the device)
Emergency Eyewash Stations ✔✔Required by OSHA
should provide at least 0.4 gallons of water per minute continuously for 15 min
Hands Free
located within 10 seconds of walking distance (56 ft walking distance)
Blue Diamond ✔✔Health Hazard
Red Diamond ✔✔flammability
Yellow Diamond ✔✔instability
White Diamond ✔✔special hazard information
Center for Disease Control and Prevention ✔✔publish widely respected recommendations and
guidelines on such topics as hand hygiene, isolation precautions, environmental infection control,
and disinfection and sterilization, when new or emerging diseases are identified, the CDC also
publishes guidelines .
Fire Extinguisher
Class A ✔✔cloth, wood, paper, rubber, and many plastics
Fire Extinguisher
Class B ✔✔gasoline, alcohol, diesel oil, oil-based paints, lacquers, etc.. flammable gases
Fire Extinguisher
Class C ✔✔Energized Electrical Equipment
Fire Extinguisher
Class D ✔✔magnesium, titanium, and sodium
Fire Extinguisher
Class K ✔✔Vegetable oils, animal oils, or fats in cooking appliances. This is for commercial
kitchens, including those found in restaurants, cafeteria, and caterers.
Fire Triangle ✔✔Fuel Source, Oxygen Source, Ignition Source
What does PPE protect you from? ✔✔Bloodborne Pathogen
Incident Reports ✔✔report no matter what no later than 24 hours
Why is it necessary to wear warm up jackets in the preparation and packaging area? ✔✔to prevent
bacterial shedding from bare arms
Anatomy ✔✔branch of science
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