Sterile Tech Exam review - Chapter 1:
Roles and Responsibilities Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Role of Sterile Processing Dept? - ✔✔processes, issues, and controls professional
supplies and equipment for all departments and units
Function of SPD? - ✔✔decontamination, preparation and packaging, sterilization, and
supply distribution
Decontamination area - ✔✔where soiled items are received and cleaned
Preparation and packaging area - ✔✔where items are inspected, assembled, and
packaged
High-level disinfection room or area - ✔✔where cleaned items are high-level
disinfected and then passed to the preparation and packaging (clean)
Sterilization area - ✔✔where terminal sterilization is performed
Sterile storage area - ✔✔where sterile items are stored until needed
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, Sterile stores - ✔✔items for patient care from outside manufacturers are stored - similar
names: medical supply distribution, central supply
Case cart area - ✔✔where sterile and clean items are dispensed
Patient care equipment clean-up area - ✔✔where patient care equipment is cleaned and
disinfected
Figure 1-1 Steps in sterile processing pg 4 - ✔✔1. Begin in decontamination area (soiled)
- medical devices are cleaned
2. Work progresses to the ocean preparation and packaging area - high-level
disinfection may take place
3. After packaging, the medical devices are sterilized, then stored or distributed
4. The dirty-to-clean should never be circumvented
Workflow - ✔✔how work progresses through the department or processing area
People flow - ✔✔refers to how people move through the department or processing area
Traffic control - ✔✔should be restricted to departmental employees and authorized
personnel such as equipment service representatives
Ethics - ✔✔the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and
obligation
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Roles and Responsibilities Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Role of Sterile Processing Dept? - ✔✔processes, issues, and controls professional
supplies and equipment for all departments and units
Function of SPD? - ✔✔decontamination, preparation and packaging, sterilization, and
supply distribution
Decontamination area - ✔✔where soiled items are received and cleaned
Preparation and packaging area - ✔✔where items are inspected, assembled, and
packaged
High-level disinfection room or area - ✔✔where cleaned items are high-level
disinfected and then passed to the preparation and packaging (clean)
Sterilization area - ✔✔where terminal sterilization is performed
Sterile storage area - ✔✔where sterile items are stored until needed
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, Sterile stores - ✔✔items for patient care from outside manufacturers are stored - similar
names: medical supply distribution, central supply
Case cart area - ✔✔where sterile and clean items are dispensed
Patient care equipment clean-up area - ✔✔where patient care equipment is cleaned and
disinfected
Figure 1-1 Steps in sterile processing pg 4 - ✔✔1. Begin in decontamination area (soiled)
- medical devices are cleaned
2. Work progresses to the ocean preparation and packaging area - high-level
disinfection may take place
3. After packaging, the medical devices are sterilized, then stored or distributed
4. The dirty-to-clean should never be circumvented
Workflow - ✔✔how work progresses through the department or processing area
People flow - ✔✔refers to how people move through the department or processing area
Traffic control - ✔✔should be restricted to departmental employees and authorized
personnel such as equipment service representatives
Ethics - ✔✔the discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty and
obligation
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