SURGICAL TECH UPDATED ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS (2026)
●● Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related
to?
Answer: consistent communication
●● What tasks belongs to the medical records department?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Radiologist
●● A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical
care by elevating standards of surgical education and practice is the?
Answer: American College of Surgeons
●● The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance
criteria for health care organiations is the?
Answer: The Joint Commission
,●● What is a proper job description?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Circulator and ST in circulating role
●● Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the
hospital?
Answer: Surgery department
●● When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical
technologist offered?
Answer: Dec 1970
●● Indirect patient care is provided by which departments?
Answer: administration, maintenance, housekeeping, food services,
purchasing/central services, medical records
●● The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity
Answer: National Board of Surgical Technologists and Surgical
Assistants
,●● The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the?
Answer: Scrub tech or STSR
●● Accreditation is a term that applies to?
Answer: Programs
●● Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ?
Answer: Board of Trustees
●● A CRNA is part of what OR group
Answer: 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?
Answer: insurance
●● Medicare is a program administered by the federal government
through which agency
Answer: CMS
, ●● The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health
activites worldwide?
Answer: World Health Organization
●● What entity accredits surgical technology programs?
Answer: Commission Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs
●● A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is
known as?
Answer: competencies
●● What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and
other health care providers?
Answer: professional
●● What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist,
the patient, and the patient's family?
Answer: therapeutic
●● According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing
relationships?
Answer: communication
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS (2026)
●● Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related
to?
Answer: consistent communication
●● What tasks belongs to the medical records department?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Radiologist
●● A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical
care by elevating standards of surgical education and practice is the?
Answer: American College of Surgeons
●● The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance
criteria for health care organiations is the?
Answer: The Joint Commission
,●● What is a proper job description?
Answer: 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?
Answer: Circulator and ST in circulating role
●● Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the
hospital?
Answer: Surgery department
●● When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical
technologist offered?
Answer: Dec 1970
●● Indirect patient care is provided by which departments?
Answer: administration, maintenance, housekeeping, food services,
purchasing/central services, medical records
●● The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity
Answer: National Board of Surgical Technologists and Surgical
Assistants
,●● The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the?
Answer: Scrub tech or STSR
●● Accreditation is a term that applies to?
Answer: Programs
●● Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ?
Answer: Board of Trustees
●● A CRNA is part of what OR group
Answer: 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?
Answer: insurance
●● Medicare is a program administered by the federal government
through which agency
Answer: CMS
, ●● The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health
activites worldwide?
Answer: World Health Organization
●● What entity accredits surgical technology programs?
Answer: Commission Accreditation of Allied Health Education
Programs
●● A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is
known as?
Answer: competencies
●● What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and
other health care providers?
Answer: professional
●● What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist,
the patient, and the patient's family?
Answer: therapeutic
●● According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing
relationships?
Answer: communication
