NYC TATTOO LICENSE COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Necessary supplies - ✔✔Medical gloves
Tongue depressors
Clean linen /towels
Wrapping materials or containers for instruments during sterilization
Chemical time and temp and humidity sensitive tape for sterilization monitoring
Spore strips to test process
Liquid hand soap
Detergent for cleaning
Commercial sharp containers
Hospital grade disinfectant
✔✔Routine cleaning - ✔✔Detergent and water to clean surfaces in shop for dust and
soil
✔✔Blood spills - ✔✔Gloves to blot up with disposable towel, apply disinfectant to
surface, towels discarded in plastic lined waste receptacle, intermediate level hospital
grade disinfectant applied to area for recommended time, or bleach and water for 10
mins
✔✔Cleaning process - ✔✔Soak items in basin of cool water with or without detergent so
blood or organic matter doesn't stick (not hot water or disinfectant) causes stick
Utility gloves to take instruments apart and rinse in lukewarm water
Cleaning sink preparation with warm water and detergent
Clean instruments with friction or use ultrasonic cleaning device
Drain water and rinse cleaned instruments
Dry and store cleaned instruments in container until disinfection and sterilization
Remove gloves and wash and hang dry
Wash hands
✔✔Ultrasonic cleaners - ✔✔High frequency high energy sound waves dislodge material
do not sterilize or disinfect
, ✔✔High risk instruments - ✔✔Penetration of sterile or mucosal with a sharp instrument
Tattooing procedures
Accidental breaks of skin
CLEAN AND STERILIZE
Intermediate clean dry and disinfect such as mani pedis
Low risk hairdressing clean and dry
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Items and equipment and surfaces should be cleaned before
disinfection
Only used when equipment or environment is contaminated with blood or body
substance,
Disinfectants can become easily contaminated .
Disinfectants should be EPA registered, manufacturer should give MSDS material
safety data sheet
Rinse in distilled water
✔✔Non Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔May come into contact with intact skin used for
routine housekeeping
Rarely contaminated with body fluid like chair and table, detergent and warm water
Items contaminated with body fluid like dirty instrument tray, motor frame, tattoo chuck
or clamp, pump packs, spray bottle, low level disinfectants like quarts or 3% hydrogen
peroxide
Wet paper towel, wipe clean with disinfectant and allow for sufficient time
✔✔Semi Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔Come into contact with mucous membranes or
non-intact skin or hold sterile item
Intermediate and high level disinfectants for items that cannot soak 70% isopropyl
alcohol or 1 part bleach 10 parts water wiped and air dried
Items capable of being soaked High level disinfectants 2% gluteraldehyde or 6%
hydrogen peroxide , soaked in disinfectant for recommended time
✔✔Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔Tattoo needles, sterile items
Purchased sterile or sterilized in steam or heat dry
Chemicals that sterilize not recommended because of difficult monitoring
✔✔Low Level disinfectant - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium (quats) or some phenols/
hydrogen peroxide
For non critical items some bacteria and viruses like herpes HBV HCV and HIV
Doesn't kill tuberculosis fungi or spores
DONT USE FOR DISINFECTING INSTRUMENTS
✔✔Intermediate Level disinfectant - ✔✔70% isopropyl alcohol, bleach, iodine solutions
Kills microorganisms for low disinfectants plus fungi, doesn't kill tuberculosis or spores
Burns skin and stains fabric
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Necessary supplies - ✔✔Medical gloves
Tongue depressors
Clean linen /towels
Wrapping materials or containers for instruments during sterilization
Chemical time and temp and humidity sensitive tape for sterilization monitoring
Spore strips to test process
Liquid hand soap
Detergent for cleaning
Commercial sharp containers
Hospital grade disinfectant
✔✔Routine cleaning - ✔✔Detergent and water to clean surfaces in shop for dust and
soil
✔✔Blood spills - ✔✔Gloves to blot up with disposable towel, apply disinfectant to
surface, towels discarded in plastic lined waste receptacle, intermediate level hospital
grade disinfectant applied to area for recommended time, or bleach and water for 10
mins
✔✔Cleaning process - ✔✔Soak items in basin of cool water with or without detergent so
blood or organic matter doesn't stick (not hot water or disinfectant) causes stick
Utility gloves to take instruments apart and rinse in lukewarm water
Cleaning sink preparation with warm water and detergent
Clean instruments with friction or use ultrasonic cleaning device
Drain water and rinse cleaned instruments
Dry and store cleaned instruments in container until disinfection and sterilization
Remove gloves and wash and hang dry
Wash hands
✔✔Ultrasonic cleaners - ✔✔High frequency high energy sound waves dislodge material
do not sterilize or disinfect
, ✔✔High risk instruments - ✔✔Penetration of sterile or mucosal with a sharp instrument
Tattooing procedures
Accidental breaks of skin
CLEAN AND STERILIZE
Intermediate clean dry and disinfect such as mani pedis
Low risk hairdressing clean and dry
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔Items and equipment and surfaces should be cleaned before
disinfection
Only used when equipment or environment is contaminated with blood or body
substance,
Disinfectants can become easily contaminated .
Disinfectants should be EPA registered, manufacturer should give MSDS material
safety data sheet
Rinse in distilled water
✔✔Non Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔May come into contact with intact skin used for
routine housekeeping
Rarely contaminated with body fluid like chair and table, detergent and warm water
Items contaminated with body fluid like dirty instrument tray, motor frame, tattoo chuck
or clamp, pump packs, spray bottle, low level disinfectants like quarts or 3% hydrogen
peroxide
Wet paper towel, wipe clean with disinfectant and allow for sufficient time
✔✔Semi Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔Come into contact with mucous membranes or
non-intact skin or hold sterile item
Intermediate and high level disinfectants for items that cannot soak 70% isopropyl
alcohol or 1 part bleach 10 parts water wiped and air dried
Items capable of being soaked High level disinfectants 2% gluteraldehyde or 6%
hydrogen peroxide , soaked in disinfectant for recommended time
✔✔Critical items (disinfection) - ✔✔Tattoo needles, sterile items
Purchased sterile or sterilized in steam or heat dry
Chemicals that sterilize not recommended because of difficult monitoring
✔✔Low Level disinfectant - ✔✔Quaternary ammonium (quats) or some phenols/
hydrogen peroxide
For non critical items some bacteria and viruses like herpes HBV HCV and HIV
Doesn't kill tuberculosis fungi or spores
DONT USE FOR DISINFECTING INSTRUMENTS
✔✔Intermediate Level disinfectant - ✔✔70% isopropyl alcohol, bleach, iodine solutions
Kills microorganisms for low disinfectants plus fungi, doesn't kill tuberculosis or spores
Burns skin and stains fabric
