Wait! What?
The most effective means of decreasing healthcare associated infections (SSIs)
What is hand hygiene?
Should not be worn hanging from the neck
What are masks?
These parts of the surgical gown are sterile
What are the front from the chest to the level of the sterile field, and the sleeves up to 2 inches above the elbows?
Fingernails of Perioperative personnel should be no longer than this length
What is 2mm?
True/False: You do not need to perform hand hygiene as long as you keep your gloves on
What is False?
The edge of the container from which solution is poured is considered ___________
What is contaminated?
Should not be tied around the waist
What is scrub jacket?
Only these should come in contact with a sterile field
What are sterile supplies/instruments etc?
When performing hand hygiene, this is how long you should scrub hands
What is 20 seconds?
True/False: Sterile technique is used when wearing sterile gowns and gloves
What is true?
Worn in the OR to promote patient and healthcare provider safety and to help preserve the integrity of the sterile field
What is surgical attire?
When worn, these should be contained under the surgical attire
What are jewelries and undergarments?
This should be prepared in the location in which it will be used and should not be moved
When in the scrub role, this is the recommended number of pairs of gloves
What are 2 pairs?
True/False: Your hands are sterile after performing surgical hand antisepsis/surgical scrub
WHat is false?
Involves specific actions and activities we perform to prevent contamination and maintain the sterility of specific areas during surgical and other invasive procedures
What is sterile technique?
Worn to protect the patient from potential infection by preventing skin squames from dispersing into the air and settling around the surgical site, especially during skin prep
What is long sleeve jacket?
Per Inova policy, this should be done:
1. Before touching a patient
2. Before clean/aseptic procedure
3. After body fluid exposure risk
4. After touching a patient
5. After touching patient surroundings
What is Hand Hygiene?
You need this many squirts of Avargard when performing a waterless scrub
What is 3?
How many do you need for Sterilium?
True/False: You may gently move glove packages with scrubbed hands to reach paper towel when gowning/gloving
What is False?
Used for procedures involving bowel or metastatic cancer to avoid using items that have touched the involved tissue or bowel for wound closure and to reduce the potential for microorganisms in the bowel to be transferred into the abdominal cavity, tissues of the abdominal wall and the surgical site.
What is Bowel Isolation Technique?
This should be of appropriate size and sleeve length, the back should not be open, and the belts should be tied.
What is surgical gown?
This is used to transfer medication unto the sterile field
What is transfer device?
Per manufacturer's IFU, surgical hand antisepsis with scrub brush and water should take this many minutes
What is 6?
True/False: My scrub gown does not need to completely cover my back since my back is not sterile anyway
What is False?