CER FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+

CER FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
✔✔Regulations and standards establish: - ✔✔Minimum levels of quality and safety

✔✔A non-profit organization that writes standards and technical information reports -
✔✔Association.for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)

✔✔OSHA - ✔✔Protects workers from workplace injury and illness.

✔✔FDA - ✔✔responsible for regulating food and drug products sold to the public, for
labeling, regulates single-use devices, requires manufacturers provide device IFU,

✔✔CDC - ✔✔Provides info on proper use of PPE, Published the "Essential Elements of
Reprocessing for Flexible Endoscopes"

✔✔DOT - ✔✔Regulates the transport of minimally processed items outside of
healthcare facilities

✔✔EPA - ✔✔an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed
at reducing pollution and protecting the environment

✔✔Quality Management measures for endoscopes include repair cost per procedure for
each endoscope. T/F - ✔✔True

✔✔Surveyors may ask staff in the endoscope reprocessing area to demonstrate
departmental protocols for damaged endoscopes. T/F - ✔✔True

✔✔This department is responsible for providing input into the endoscope use and
handling system. - ✔✔-Reprocessing
-Infection Prevention
-User

✔✔Regulations and standards establish - ✔✔Minimum levels of quality and safety.

✔✔This agency is responsible for enforcing proper labeling of biohazards material -
✔✔Department of Transportation (DOT)

✔✔The responsibility for safe and successful reprocessing of endoscopes rests with the
- ✔✔People who manage the system.

✔✔Information posts are a good way to quickly spread the work of an issue or process
change, T/F? - ✔✔True

, ✔✔Operative (therapeutic) flexible endoscopes are used to identify possible disease,
T/F? - ✔✔False

✔✔Flexible endoscopes can be used to remove small organs, such as the gallbladder,
T/F? - ✔✔False

✔✔When sending endoscopes from the user area to the decontamination area,
endoscopes and their accessories, such as forceps and wires, should be transported in
the same closed container. T/F - ✔✔False

✔✔The leak detector should be connected to the _______________ portion of the
endoscope. - ✔✔Venting connection

✔✔Reusable cleaning brushes should be cleaned and disinfected at least once per
shift. - ✔✔False. Clean and HLD reusable brushes after the reprocessing of EACH
endoscope.

✔✔Manual high-level disinfection has a greater risk of chemical exposure than high-
level disinfection using an AER, T/F? - ✔✔True

✔✔When preparing an endoscope for HLD, it is important to put the valve cover back
on the endoscope to help ensure the disinfectant can get get inside the lumens. -
✔✔False. If manually disinfecting lumens should be open so HLD detergent can enter
lumens. If doing HLD in an AER, then endoscope will be attached to connectors to
ensure fluid is pumped through the lumens.

✔✔The HLD solution in an AER should be tested for the minimum effective
concentration (MEC) - ✔✔Before each use.

✔✔OSHA requires a method to alert employees to emergency situations for this type of
low-temperature sterilizer - ✔✔Ethylene oxide

✔✔ALL flexible endoscopes should have a ventilation adaptor or water-resistant cap in
place when undergoing ethylene oxide sterilization, T/F? - ✔✔False

✔✔Peel pouches are an acceptable packaging material for ethylene oxide sterilization,
T/F? - ✔✔True

✔✔Name some rigid endoscopes - ✔✔Laraoscopes
Arthroscopes
Cystoscope
Sinuscope