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 behaviorStandard ✔✔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 that deals with the structure of body parts: their form and their
organizationPhysiology ✔✔functions of the body parts: what they do and how they do it
Levels of Organization of the Human Body ✔✔1. Cellular Level
2.Tissue Level
3.Organ Level
4.System Level
Environmental factors of a CELL ✔✔Water
Food
Oxygen
Heat
Pressure
Alkaline PH Environment
Cell Wall ✔✔the outer surface of the cell, protects the cell from physical injury
Cell Membrane ✔✔the outer boundary of the cell. It consists of a thin, continuous sheet of fatty
molecules in which proteins are embedded, The cell membrane allows for food, nutrients, and
wastes to be passed into and out of the cell.
Nuclear Membrane ✔✔supports the nucleus and controls the passage of materials between the
nucleus and the cytoplasm
Nucleus ✔✔located near the center of the cell, is the cell's "brain" it contains the genes (which
consist of deoxyibonucleic acid [DNA], the heredity material in all organisms) and chromosomes.
The nucleus directs everyday cell life and reproduction. It is located near the center of the cell
Cytoplasm ✔✔where food molecules are received, processed, and used. It functions as a
communication system through which molecules can be transported from one cell part to anotherCilia and Flagella ✔✔motile appendages that extend outward from the surfaces of certain cells.
Skull ✔✔which is composed of the cranium and the facial bones. The smallest bones of the body
are found in the middle ear; these bones are called the anvil, the hammer and the stirrup because
that is what they look lik
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