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1. What is the Area Temp & Humidity for Decontamination? - ANS
✔60 deg to 65 deg F, 30% to 60% Humidity
2. What is the air exchange rate & pressure type for
Decontamination? - ANS ✔10 air exchanges per hour under
Negative Pressure
3. What is the Area Temp & Humidity for the Sterile Storage Area? -
ANS ✔68 deg to 75 deg F, 35% to 70% Humidity
4. What is the Area Temp & Humidity for the Prep & Packaging
Area? - ANS ✔68 deg to 73 deg F, Ideal Humidity 50% - not lower
than 35%
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5. The main role of sterile processing is to: - ANS ✔Provide
dependable reliable services to enhance the quality of patient care.
6. Ethics is the practice of: - ANS ✔Doing the right thing.
7. Which of the following establishes sterilization practice
standards based on opinion, research, and/or theory: - ANS
✔AAMI
8. EPA, FDA, OSHA and state departments of health (DOH)
primarily issue: - ANS ✔Regulations.
9. Standards for CS/SPD practice are written by: - ANS ✔AAMI
10. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
provides for which ethical issue? - ANS ✔Confidentiality
11. If healthcare facilities reprocess single-use devices, the
devices must be cleared by: - ANS ✔FDA
12. OSHA has a great effect on CS/SPD by its regulation of
occupational exposure to airborne contaminants, exposure from
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bloodborne pathogens, and which of the following: - ANS
✔Communication of workplace hazards
13. The Medical Device Reporting regulation requires: - ANS
✔Healthcare facilities to report deaths or serious injuries from
medical devices.
14. Collection of data and identification of issues are part of
what kind of program? - ANS ✔Quality Assurance
15. To ensure that all employees are learning the same
information, training should be: - ANS ✔Standardized
16. Which branch of science refers to the form and
organization of body parts? - ANS ✔Anatomy
17. Which branch of science refers to the function of specific
body parts? - ANS ✔Physiology
18. The smallest and most numerous structural units
possessing the basic characteristics of life are called: - ANS
✔Cells
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19. Which of the following is NOT an environmental factor
required for the life of a cell? - ANS ✔Cold
20. DNA is found in which part of the cell? - ANS ✔Nucleus
21. Complex structures with specialized functions within the
body are known as: - ANS ✔Organs
22. Red blood cells develop in which part of the body? - ANS
✔Bone Marrow
23. The smallest bones of the body are found in the: - ANS
✔Middle Ear
24. Which of the following supports the tongue and the
functions in swallowing? - ANS ✔Hyoid Bone
25. The skull, hyoid, vertebral column, and thoracic cage are
part of the: - ANS ✔Axial Skeleton
26. Muscles make up what part of the body's bulk? - ANS ✔1/2
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