Sterile Field
Your sterile glove touches the sterile drape.
What is Sterile
The sterile field remains in constant view and untouched by non-sterile items.
What is Not Compromised
The dressing is fully adhered, clean, and dry.
What is Clean, Dry, and Intact
A dressing is clean, dry, intact, and within the 7-day window.
What is Leave It
An unused IV port that is not connected to tubing.
What is CAP
A sterile instrument is dropped onto a sterile field without touching anything else.
What is sterile
A sterile drape gets splashed with fluid.
What is Compromised
Edges of the dressing are lifting.
What is Not Clean, Dry, Intact
The dressing is peeling at the corner.
What is Change it
What is No Cap
Your sterile glove touches your scrub top.
What is contaminated
You reach across a sterile field with an unsterile sleeve.
What is Compromised
The dressing has moisture under the transparent dressing.
What is Not Clean, Dry and Intact
The dressing has visible drainage.
What is Change it
A disconnected line that will not be used immediately.
What is CAP
The sterile field falls below waist level.
What is Contaminated
A sterile package is opened properly and dropped onto the field without contact.
What is Not Compromised
There is visible drainage on the dressing.
What is Not Clean, Dry, Intact
A dressing becomes wet during a patient shower.
What is Change It
What is CAP
You turn your back to a sterile field.
What is Contaminated
You are unsure whether the sterile field was touched by a non-sterile object.
What is Compromised
The dressing is intact with no lifting, moisture, or drainage.
What is Clean, Dry, and Intact
A dressing is CDI but it has reached the scheduled 7-day change.
What is Change It
What is No Cap