SURGICAL TECH EXAM | QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | 2026
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• Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? -✓✓ consistent
communication
• What tasks belongs to the medical records department? -✓✓ maintains and verifies all
patient records, trascription of history and phsyical, requires proper signature, may
provide past medical records when needed
• Preoperative diagnostic studies are performed by the? -✓✓ Radiologist
• A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical care by elevating
standards of surgical education and practice is the? -✓✓ American College of Surgeons
• The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance criteria for
health care organiations is the? -✓✓ The Joint Commission
• What is a proper job description? -✓✓ Provides a job title, definition, specified
requirements, duties and tasks, and designation of ones immediate supervisor
• Which OR team member is responsible for opening sterile supplies onto the field
DURING a surgical procedure? -✓✓ Circulator and ST in circulating role
• Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the hospital? -✓✓
Surgery department
• When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical technologist offered? -✓✓
Dec 1970
• Indirect patient care is provided by which departments? -✓✓ administration,
maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing/central services, medical
records
• The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity -✓✓ National Board of
Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants
• The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the? -✓✓ Scrub tech or
STSR
• Accreditation is a term that applies to? -✓✓ Programs
• Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ? -✓✓ Board of Trustees
,• A CRNA is part of what OR group -✓✓ non sterile anesthesia dept
• A contractual relatinship and mutual benefit that exist when one party or entity agrees
to pay another for a specified loss or condition is known as? -✓✓ insurance
• Medicare is a program administered by the federal government through which agency
-✓✓ CMS
• The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health activites worldwide? -
✓✓ World Health Organization
• What entity accredits surgical technology programs? -✓✓ Commission Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs
• A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is known as? -✓✓
competencies
• What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and other health care
providers? -✓✓ professional
• What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist, the patient, and
the patient's family? -✓✓ therapeutic
• According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing relationships? -
✓✓ communication
• According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? -✓✓
communication
• Nonverbal communication involves several components. What term defines the
following: be open-minded and objective -✓✓ receptive
• A hospital that is owned by an individual or corporation in order to make a profit is
known as which type of hospital? -✓✓ Proprietary
• What program allows for a surgical technologist to ascend to positions of increased
responsibility -✓✓ Clinical Ladder
• What organization acts both as an insurer and a provider of medical services -✓✓
Health Maintenance Organization
• What health care organization requires a primary care physician for all referrals? -✓✓
HMO
,• What hospital committee verifies the credentials of the physicians and specialized
health care personnel -✓✓ Medical Staff Committee
• The credential held by a nurse with several years experience in critical nursing and
specialty training in anesthesia is ? -✓✓ CRNA
• What department provides sterotactic services? -✓✓ Diagnostic Imaging
• What department provides blood replacement services? -✓✓ Medical Laboratory
• What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? -✓✓ Risk
Management
• What department provides informed consent? -✓✓ Nursing Care Units
• What department provides preventive measures against infection? -✓✓ Infection
control
• What department repairs broken equipment? -✓✓ Maintenance/Biomed
• What department oversees the sterilization needs of the hospital -✓✓
Purchasing/central services
• What department maintains and verifies all patient records -✓✓ Medical Records
• What department provides rehabilitation for the post-op patient? -✓✓ Physical or
Occupational therapy
• Which entity is responsible for verifying that the school attended by the ST meets
national standarts? -✓✓ ARC-ST
• Surgical pathology treating life or limb is defined as which type of surgery? -✓✓
Emergent
• Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known
as? -✓✓ Urgent
• A scheduled knee arthroscopy is classified as which type of surgery? -✓✓ Elective
• Given the focused and technical tasks of the OR, the team must struggle against the
tendency to? -✓✓ Lose sight of the total person as a whole
, • The needs or activities related to one's identification or interaction with another
individual or gorup forms which component of the human being -✓✓ Social need
• A uterine fibroid is an example of what type of factor causing surgical intervention? -
✓✓ nonmalignant neoplasm
• What is a malignant neoplasm? -✓✓ colon cancer, giloblastoma, cancerous growth
• According to Maslow's hierarchy, what are the most basic needs -✓✓ Physiological,
biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation
• All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? -✓✓ Cognitive,
social, and physical
• One of the advantages to the life-stage approach is that it? -✓✓ is practical and doesnt
require advanced levels of education to apply
• If a patient asks what you do, you should? -✓✓ explain honestly in simple terms
• What consideration may be more relevant to the elderly patient than to an adolescent?
-✓✓ pre-op planning, arthritis, decrease emotion, patient skin condition
• When positioning the elderly patient, the team must be especially aware of ? -✓✓
fragile skin, restricted movement, joints, arthritis
• What are the common physiological factors in the elderly? -✓✓ Decreased cardiac and
respiratory function
• If adult response is the norm, pediatric patients must be observed for what response? -
✓✓ Paradoxical (opposite)
• Several components make up an individual. Any need or activity related to genetics,
physiology, or anatomy is termed a __ need? -✓✓ physical
• Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of oneself is termed
a __ need? -✓✓ Psychological need
• Any need or activity related to one's identification or interaction with another individual
or group is termed a __ need? -✓✓ social
• Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of one's place in an
organized universe (expressions may involve theology, philisophy, mythology, and
intuition) is termed a __ need? -✓✓ spiritual need
UPDATE | 100% VERIFIED | WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
• Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? -✓✓ consistent
communication
• What tasks belongs to the medical records department? -✓✓ maintains and verifies all
patient records, trascription of history and phsyical, requires proper signature, may
provide past medical records when needed
• Preoperative diagnostic studies are performed by the? -✓✓ Radiologist
• A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical care by elevating
standards of surgical education and practice is the? -✓✓ American College of Surgeons
• The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance criteria for
health care organiations is the? -✓✓ The Joint Commission
• What is a proper job description? -✓✓ Provides a job title, definition, specified
requirements, duties and tasks, and designation of ones immediate supervisor
• Which OR team member is responsible for opening sterile supplies onto the field
DURING a surgical procedure? -✓✓ Circulator and ST in circulating role
• Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the hospital? -✓✓
Surgery department
• When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical technologist offered? -✓✓
Dec 1970
• Indirect patient care is provided by which departments? -✓✓ administration,
maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing/central services, medical
records
• The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity -✓✓ National Board of
Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants
• The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the? -✓✓ Scrub tech or
STSR
• Accreditation is a term that applies to? -✓✓ Programs
• Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ? -✓✓ Board of Trustees
,• A CRNA is part of what OR group -✓✓ non sterile anesthesia dept
• A contractual relatinship and mutual benefit that exist when one party or entity agrees
to pay another for a specified loss or condition is known as? -✓✓ insurance
• Medicare is a program administered by the federal government through which agency
-✓✓ CMS
• The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health activites worldwide? -
✓✓ World Health Organization
• What entity accredits surgical technology programs? -✓✓ Commission Accreditation of
Allied Health Education Programs
• A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is known as? -✓✓
competencies
• What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and other health care
providers? -✓✓ professional
• What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist, the patient, and
the patient's family? -✓✓ therapeutic
• According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing relationships? -
✓✓ communication
• According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? -✓✓
communication
• Nonverbal communication involves several components. What term defines the
following: be open-minded and objective -✓✓ receptive
• A hospital that is owned by an individual or corporation in order to make a profit is
known as which type of hospital? -✓✓ Proprietary
• What program allows for a surgical technologist to ascend to positions of increased
responsibility -✓✓ Clinical Ladder
• What organization acts both as an insurer and a provider of medical services -✓✓
Health Maintenance Organization
• What health care organization requires a primary care physician for all referrals? -✓✓
HMO
,• What hospital committee verifies the credentials of the physicians and specialized
health care personnel -✓✓ Medical Staff Committee
• The credential held by a nurse with several years experience in critical nursing and
specialty training in anesthesia is ? -✓✓ CRNA
• What department provides sterotactic services? -✓✓ Diagnostic Imaging
• What department provides blood replacement services? -✓✓ Medical Laboratory
• What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? -✓✓ Risk
Management
• What department provides informed consent? -✓✓ Nursing Care Units
• What department provides preventive measures against infection? -✓✓ Infection
control
• What department repairs broken equipment? -✓✓ Maintenance/Biomed
• What department oversees the sterilization needs of the hospital -✓✓
Purchasing/central services
• What department maintains and verifies all patient records -✓✓ Medical Records
• What department provides rehabilitation for the post-op patient? -✓✓ Physical or
Occupational therapy
• Which entity is responsible for verifying that the school attended by the ST meets
national standarts? -✓✓ ARC-ST
• Surgical pathology treating life or limb is defined as which type of surgery? -✓✓
Emergent
• Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known
as? -✓✓ Urgent
• A scheduled knee arthroscopy is classified as which type of surgery? -✓✓ Elective
• Given the focused and technical tasks of the OR, the team must struggle against the
tendency to? -✓✓ Lose sight of the total person as a whole
, • The needs or activities related to one's identification or interaction with another
individual or gorup forms which component of the human being -✓✓ Social need
• A uterine fibroid is an example of what type of factor causing surgical intervention? -
✓✓ nonmalignant neoplasm
• What is a malignant neoplasm? -✓✓ colon cancer, giloblastoma, cancerous growth
• According to Maslow's hierarchy, what are the most basic needs -✓✓ Physiological,
biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation
• All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? -✓✓ Cognitive,
social, and physical
• One of the advantages to the life-stage approach is that it? -✓✓ is practical and doesnt
require advanced levels of education to apply
• If a patient asks what you do, you should? -✓✓ explain honestly in simple terms
• What consideration may be more relevant to the elderly patient than to an adolescent?
-✓✓ pre-op planning, arthritis, decrease emotion, patient skin condition
• When positioning the elderly patient, the team must be especially aware of ? -✓✓
fragile skin, restricted movement, joints, arthritis
• What are the common physiological factors in the elderly? -✓✓ Decreased cardiac and
respiratory function
• If adult response is the norm, pediatric patients must be observed for what response? -
✓✓ Paradoxical (opposite)
• Several components make up an individual. Any need or activity related to genetics,
physiology, or anatomy is termed a __ need? -✓✓ physical
• Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of oneself is termed
a __ need? -✓✓ Psychological need
• Any need or activity related to one's identification or interaction with another individual
or group is termed a __ need? -✓✓ social
• Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of one's place in an
organized universe (expressions may involve theology, philisophy, mythology, and
intuition) is termed a __ need? -✓✓ spiritual need
