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Time To Get Your Scrub On
Setting Up The Back Table
Movement Around the Operating Room
Surgical Conscience
Aseptic Technique
100
Jewelry of any kind is a potential source of pathogen. The recommended standard is to ________________.
What is Remove All Jewelry?
100

Where are table drapes are considered sterile _______________________.

What is only on top of the table?

100
The ________ is the center of the sterile field during surgery.
What is a Draped Patient?
100
A ___________ is a paper strip or specifically treated tape that changes color when exposed to a specific temperature.
What is a Chemical Indicator?
100
If water is found in a basin when the sterile wrapper is opened, the basin is considered ______________.
What is Contaminated?
200

Handwashing is the simplest and most important preventive measure for reducing infection in the Operating/Procedure Room. Hand washing is required   _________________.

What is to be completed between patients?

200
The amount of space that should be left between sterile and non-sterile surfaces is ________________.
What is 12 inches or more?
200

You are working with the surgeon and one of the ties on his mask becomes untied. The tie has now fallen onto the front of his gown. What do you do?

What is "Notify the surgeon so that he can re-gown"?

200
Sterile instruments and supplies are loaded onto a ______________ before surgery and transported to the surgical suite.
What is the Case Cart or Cart?
200
Sterile gowns are considered sterile from _________________.
What is in the front from the mid-chest to the table top, and from hands to 2 inches above the elbow.
300

___________ is used in the healthcare setting for routine hand washing. 

What is Antiseptic Liquid Soap?

300

When sterile supplies have been opened, the setup is vulnerable to contamination. The longer a setup remains exposed, the greater the risk of contamination. 

It is recommended that supplies not be left open unless _______________.

What is "Unless it is constantly monitored for contamination or is covered in a sterile manner per AORN recommendations."

300
__________________________ is a post-operative infection of the surgical wound.
What is Surgical Site Infection?
300

While the Surgical Technologist is gowning and gloving themselves, they accidentally touch the unsterile glove wrapper with their bare hands. What should they do?

What is replace them with new ones.

300
When water is exposed to a sterile drape or gown, this can cause _____________________________, which occurs when moisture from either side of the drape serves as a vehicle for bacteria to infiltrate the drape from the non-sterile surface.
What is Strike Through Contamination?
400

Your surgeon comes into the room and his hands are dripping wet. You give him a towel to pat himself dry, and a few water droplets sprinkle near your sterile back table. What do you do?

What is "Ask your circulating nurse to get you a drape to cover the end where he dripped so you can maintain the integrity of your sterile field."

400
Surgical Conscience is doing the right thing when _________________________________.
What is "No One Is Looking?"
400
Sterile personnel must pass other sterile personnel ________________.
What is Front to Front or Back to Back?
400
Prior to opening a sterile pack, the Surgical Technologist or RN should also check the outside package for the package ________________________.
What is Integrity?
400

An item is considered sterile unless the integrity has been broken, this is called

What is EVENT RELATED STERILITY?

500
What is the name of the flora is found on the uppermost layer of the skin?
What is Transient Flora?
500

Depending on the complexity of the surgery, the amount of equipment to be prepared, and the emergent nature of the procedure, the Surgical Technologist and Circulator will begin to open the case ____________________.

What is @ as close to the start of surgery as possible, between 15-20 mins?

500
_________________ is when the surgeon's gloved hand accidentally touches the non-sterile edge of the surgical drape.
What is Contamination?
500
Before opening the wrapper of any sterile item, inspect it for signs of contamination. _________ or _________, water marks or water spots on any wrappers are signs of questionable sterility.
What are tears or holes?
500
_________________ proves rationale for all the standards and recommendations made by professional organizations in disease transmission, biotechnology, patient safety, and advances in surgical practice.
What is Evidence Based Practice?