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CST EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2024-2025 LATEST
UPDATED | GET IT CORRECT !!!
What is an example of the interaction between personal and professional life?
The nature of the OR results in some isolation from the general public
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
CST EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2024-2025 LATEST
UPDATED | GET IT CORRECT !!!
What is an example of the interaction between personal and professional life?
The nature of the OR results in some isolation from the general public
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
