CCHT EXAM 2 2026 PRACTICE TEST SHEET
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
PREPARATION SET
◉ Dialysis surfaces must be disinfected with what solution?
Answer: 1:100 bleach solution
◉ Large blood spills over 10ml must be disinfected with what
solution?
Answer: 1:10 bleach solution
◉ What is Aseptic technique?
Answer: Practices and procedures performed under carefully
controlled conditions. Minimizing contamination by pathogens.
◉ When sterile meets sterile..
Answer: It remains sterile
◉ When sterile meets clean..
Answer: It becomes clean
◉ When sterile or clean meet dirty..
,Answer: It becomes dirty
◉ PPE
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment. Full face shield or mask,
eyewear with full side shield, and fluid-resistant gowns and gloves.
◉ 3 blood borne pathogens that may be found in a dialysis unit
Answer: Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV
◉ What is an exposure incident?
Answer: A bloody/body fluid splash/spray occurring to the eyes
nose or mouth, or non-intact skin.
◉ What steps should you take if you have been exposed to the
fluids?
Answer: Wash/rinse immediately. Report to CM. Seek medical
treatment.
◉ What is hepatitis?
Answer: Inflammation of the liver due to various causes
◉ How can the viral form of hepatitis be spread?
Answer: Hep A- via contaminated food and the oral-fecal route
,Hep B & C- via exposure to blood/body fluids
◉ Why are patients with Hep B dialyzed in isolation room?
Answer: Extremely contagious, lives outside the body for extended
periods. (up to 7 days)
◉ Why do we dialyze Hep C patients in the clinical area?
Answer: Not as contagious as Hep B. HCV is not known to survive
very long outside the body
◉ What blood test indicates infection with Hep B?
Answer: HbsAg test for Hep B antigen, indicates actual viral
presence.
◉ What blood test indicates the presence of immunity against Hep
B?
Answer: HbsAb test for antibodies, indicates immunity against Hep
B
◉ Which vaccine provides long-term immunity to Hep B?
Answer: Series of multiple injections of either Recombivax or
Engerix
, ◉ Positive Tuberculin skin test, or exposure to TB
Answer: Patients with active TB are contagious.
◉ How is Tuberculosis spread?
Answer: Droplet of nuclei produced from infected individuals when
they cough, sneeze, speak, or sing
◉ How do you prevent TB in a dialysis clinic?
Answer: Patients who have active TB cannot dialyze in a
hemodialysis clinic. 3 consecutive (-) sputum cultures before
returning to the clinic
◉ What is VRE (Vancomycin-resistant enterococci)?
Answer: Gram negative, round-shaped bacteria that commonly live
in the intestinal tract. Can cause infection anywhere in the body, an
resistant to several antibiotics.
◉ What is MRSA (Methicillian-resistant Staphlyococcus Aureus)
Answer: "Staph". Normally found on the skin or in the nose.
Harmless until they enter the body through a cut or other wound
◉ What precautions should you take when caring for MRSA/VRE?
FULL SOLUTIONS CORRECT ANSWERS
PREPARATION SET
◉ Dialysis surfaces must be disinfected with what solution?
Answer: 1:100 bleach solution
◉ Large blood spills over 10ml must be disinfected with what
solution?
Answer: 1:10 bleach solution
◉ What is Aseptic technique?
Answer: Practices and procedures performed under carefully
controlled conditions. Minimizing contamination by pathogens.
◉ When sterile meets sterile..
Answer: It remains sterile
◉ When sterile meets clean..
Answer: It becomes clean
◉ When sterile or clean meet dirty..
,Answer: It becomes dirty
◉ PPE
Answer: Personal Protective Equipment. Full face shield or mask,
eyewear with full side shield, and fluid-resistant gowns and gloves.
◉ 3 blood borne pathogens that may be found in a dialysis unit
Answer: Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, and HIV
◉ What is an exposure incident?
Answer: A bloody/body fluid splash/spray occurring to the eyes
nose or mouth, or non-intact skin.
◉ What steps should you take if you have been exposed to the
fluids?
Answer: Wash/rinse immediately. Report to CM. Seek medical
treatment.
◉ What is hepatitis?
Answer: Inflammation of the liver due to various causes
◉ How can the viral form of hepatitis be spread?
Answer: Hep A- via contaminated food and the oral-fecal route
,Hep B & C- via exposure to blood/body fluids
◉ Why are patients with Hep B dialyzed in isolation room?
Answer: Extremely contagious, lives outside the body for extended
periods. (up to 7 days)
◉ Why do we dialyze Hep C patients in the clinical area?
Answer: Not as contagious as Hep B. HCV is not known to survive
very long outside the body
◉ What blood test indicates infection with Hep B?
Answer: HbsAg test for Hep B antigen, indicates actual viral
presence.
◉ What blood test indicates the presence of immunity against Hep
B?
Answer: HbsAb test for antibodies, indicates immunity against Hep
B
◉ Which vaccine provides long-term immunity to Hep B?
Answer: Series of multiple injections of either Recombivax or
Engerix
, ◉ Positive Tuberculin skin test, or exposure to TB
Answer: Patients with active TB are contagious.
◉ How is Tuberculosis spread?
Answer: Droplet of nuclei produced from infected individuals when
they cough, sneeze, speak, or sing
◉ How do you prevent TB in a dialysis clinic?
Answer: Patients who have active TB cannot dialyze in a
hemodialysis clinic. 3 consecutive (-) sputum cultures before
returning to the clinic
◉ What is VRE (Vancomycin-resistant enterococci)?
Answer: Gram negative, round-shaped bacteria that commonly live
in the intestinal tract. Can cause infection anywhere in the body, an
resistant to several antibiotics.
◉ What is MRSA (Methicillian-resistant Staphlyococcus Aureus)
Answer: "Staph". Normally found on the skin or in the nose.
Harmless until they enter the body through a cut or other wound
◉ What precautions should you take when caring for MRSA/VRE?
