CLINICAL NURSING SKILLS AND
TECHNIQUES STUDY SHEET 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
VERIFIED
◉When do you wash your hands with plan soap or water or with
antibacterial soap and water? Answer: when hands are visibly dirty
or soiled with blood or other body fluids, before eating, and after
using the toilet
◉When do you wash hands? Answer: if exposed to spore-forming
organisms
◉What do you do if hands are not visibly soiled? Answer: use an
alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands in
clinical situations
◉What are some examples of spore-forming organisms? Answer:
Clostridium difficile, and Bacillus anthracis
◉When do you practice HH with sanitizer? (Skill 7-1) Answer:
Before and after having direct contact with patients
, Before applying sterile gloves and inserting an invasive device such
as an indwelling urinary catheter or a peripheral vascular catheter
After having contact with body fluids or excretions, mucous
membranes, and nonintact skin
After having contact with wound dressings (if hands are not visibly
soiled)
When moving from a contaminated body site to a clean body site
during patient care
After having contact with inanimate objects (e.g., medical
equipment) in the immediate vicinity of a patient
After removing gloves
◉What are special considerations of HH when patient teaching?
Answer: Instruct patient and family caregiver on proper techniques
and situations for hand hygiene.
When patients are educated about the risks for infection, they play
an important role in improving hand hygiene compliance in health
care settings by reminding visitors and health care workers to
perform hand hygiene.
◉What are special considerations of HH during gerontological?
Answer: hand hygiene by staff attending older adults is of utmost
importance and should be an ongoing continuing education
requirement; impact of infection is greater in older adults
TECHNIQUES STUDY SHEET 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS EXPERT
VERIFIED
◉When do you wash your hands with plan soap or water or with
antibacterial soap and water? Answer: when hands are visibly dirty
or soiled with blood or other body fluids, before eating, and after
using the toilet
◉When do you wash hands? Answer: if exposed to spore-forming
organisms
◉What do you do if hands are not visibly soiled? Answer: use an
alcohol-based hand rub for routinely decontaminating hands in
clinical situations
◉What are some examples of spore-forming organisms? Answer:
Clostridium difficile, and Bacillus anthracis
◉When do you practice HH with sanitizer? (Skill 7-1) Answer:
Before and after having direct contact with patients
, Before applying sterile gloves and inserting an invasive device such
as an indwelling urinary catheter or a peripheral vascular catheter
After having contact with body fluids or excretions, mucous
membranes, and nonintact skin
After having contact with wound dressings (if hands are not visibly
soiled)
When moving from a contaminated body site to a clean body site
during patient care
After having contact with inanimate objects (e.g., medical
equipment) in the immediate vicinity of a patient
After removing gloves
◉What are special considerations of HH when patient teaching?
Answer: Instruct patient and family caregiver on proper techniques
and situations for hand hygiene.
When patients are educated about the risks for infection, they play
an important role in improving hand hygiene compliance in health
care settings by reminding visitors and health care workers to
perform hand hygiene.
◉What are special considerations of HH during gerontological?
Answer: hand hygiene by staff attending older adults is of utmost
importance and should be an ongoing continuing education
requirement; impact of infection is greater in older adults
