NHA PCT Exam - Domain 2
Compliance, Safety, and Professional
Responsibility7
What CAN you do? - ANSWERS-Scope of Practice (SOP): Whatever skills the PCT can perform
under state laws
What CAN'T you do? - ANSWERS-- Insert an IV
- Prescribe medications
- Diagnose patients
- Educate patients
- Give patients their test results
- SX procedures, sterile procedures
- Cannot perform triage
- Do not take orders from physician
- Do not supervise others
Chain of Command: PCT reports to .. - ANSWERS-Nurse
Chain of Command: Nurse reports to .. - ANSWERS-Charge Nurse
Chain of Command: Charge Nurse reports to .. - ANSWERS-Nurse Manager
Chain of Command: Nurse Manager reports to .. - ANSWERS-Director of Nursing (DON)
, OSHA - ANSWERS-- Established in 1970
- Ensures occupational safety of employees in workplace
CDC - ANSWERS-- ID, prevent, and control infectious diseases
- Workplace safety - preventing and handling needlestick injury
Biological Hazards - ANSWERS-Result of contact with infectious materials through biomedical
wastes and/or bodily fluids
Biomedical Waste - ANSWERS-Any material that can cause harm to employees and/or patients
OSHA's BPS Requirements - ANSWERS-- Implementation of work practices and engineering
controls to prevent exposure incidents
- Provide guidelines for training all employees who handle bodily fluids
Disposal of Sharps - ANSWERS-Biohazard sharps container
When to empty sharps container - ANSWERS-3/4 full
NEVER with sharps - ANSWERS-- Recap
- Break or bend
- Reuse
SDS of Hazardous Chemicals - ANSWERS-Safety Data Sheets
- How to handle exposure, storage, how to clean it up, types of PPE needed, first aid responses
Radiological Hazards - ANSWERS-- Dosimeter: Measures total radiological exposure
Compliance, Safety, and Professional
Responsibility7
What CAN you do? - ANSWERS-Scope of Practice (SOP): Whatever skills the PCT can perform
under state laws
What CAN'T you do? - ANSWERS-- Insert an IV
- Prescribe medications
- Diagnose patients
- Educate patients
- Give patients their test results
- SX procedures, sterile procedures
- Cannot perform triage
- Do not take orders from physician
- Do not supervise others
Chain of Command: PCT reports to .. - ANSWERS-Nurse
Chain of Command: Nurse reports to .. - ANSWERS-Charge Nurse
Chain of Command: Charge Nurse reports to .. - ANSWERS-Nurse Manager
Chain of Command: Nurse Manager reports to .. - ANSWERS-Director of Nursing (DON)
, OSHA - ANSWERS-- Established in 1970
- Ensures occupational safety of employees in workplace
CDC - ANSWERS-- ID, prevent, and control infectious diseases
- Workplace safety - preventing and handling needlestick injury
Biological Hazards - ANSWERS-Result of contact with infectious materials through biomedical
wastes and/or bodily fluids
Biomedical Waste - ANSWERS-Any material that can cause harm to employees and/or patients
OSHA's BPS Requirements - ANSWERS-- Implementation of work practices and engineering
controls to prevent exposure incidents
- Provide guidelines for training all employees who handle bodily fluids
Disposal of Sharps - ANSWERS-Biohazard sharps container
When to empty sharps container - ANSWERS-3/4 full
NEVER with sharps - ANSWERS-- Recap
- Break or bend
- Reuse
SDS of Hazardous Chemicals - ANSWERS-Safety Data Sheets
- How to handle exposure, storage, how to clean it up, types of PPE needed, first aid responses
Radiological Hazards - ANSWERS-- Dosimeter: Measures total radiological exposure
