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What is an example of the interaction between personal and professional life? - correct answer
The nature of the OR results in some isolation from the general public
Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? - correct answer
consistent communication
What tasks belongs to the medical records department? - correct 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? - correct answer Radiologist
A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical care by elevating
standards of surgical education and practice is the? - correct answer American College of
Surgeons
The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance criteria for health care
organiations is the? - correct answer The Joint Commission
What is a proper job description? - correct 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? - correct answer Circulator and ST in circulating role
Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the hospital? - correct answer
Surgery department
When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical technologist offered? - correct
answer Dec 1970
Indirect patient care is provided by which departments? - correct answer administration,
maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing/central services, medical records
The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity - correct answer National Board
of Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants
The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the? - correct answer Scrub
tech or STSR
Accreditation is a term that applies to? - correct answer Programs
Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ? - correct answer Board of
Trustees
A CRNA is part of what OR group - correct answer non sterile anesthesia dept
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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? - correct answer insurance
Medicare is a program administered by the federal government through which agency - correct
answer CMS
The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health activites worldwide? - correct
answer World Health Organization
What entity accredits surgical technology programs? - correct answer Commission
Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is known as? - correct answer
competencies
What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and other health care providers?
- correct answer professional
What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist, the patient, and the
patient's family? - correct answer therapeutic
According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing relationships? - correct
answer communication
According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? - correct answer
communication
Nonverbal communication involves several components. What term defines the following: be
open-minded and objective - correct answer receptive
A hospital that is owned by an individual or corporation in order to make a profit is known as
which type of hospital? - correct answer Proprietary
What program allows for a surgical technologist to ascend to positions of increased
responsibility - correct answer Clinical Ladder
What organization acts both as an insurer and a provider of medical services - correct answer
Health Maintenance Organization
What health care organization requires a primary care physician for all referrals? - correct
answer HMO
What hospital committee verifies the credentials of the physicians and specialized health care
personnel - correct answer Medical Staff Committee
The credential held by a nurse with several years experience in critical nursing and specialty
training in anesthesia is ? - correct answer CRNA
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What department provides sterotactic services? - correct answer Diagnostic Imaging
What department provides blood replacement services? - correct answer Medical Laboratory
What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? - correct answer Risk
Management
What department provides informed consent? - correct answer Nursing Care Units
What department provides preventive measures against infection? - correct answer Infection
control
What department repairs broken equipment? - correct answer Maintenance/Biomed
What department oversees the sterilization needs of the hospital - correct answer
Purchasing/central services
What department maintains and verifies all patient records - correct answer Medical Records
What department provides rehabilitation for the post-op patient? - correct answer Physical or
Occupational therapy
Which entity is responsible for verifying that the school attended by the ST meets national
standarts? - correct answer ARC-ST
Surgical pathology treating life or limb is defined as which type of surgery? - correct answer
Emergent
Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known as? -
correct answer Urgent
A scheduled knee arthroscopy is classified as which type of surgery? - correct answer Elective
Given the focused and technical tasks of the OR, the team must struggle against the tendency
to? - correct answer 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 - correct answer Social need
A uterine fibroid is an example of what type of factor causing surgical intervention? - correct
answer nonmalignant neoplasm
What is a malignant neoplasm? - correct answer colon cancer, giloblastoma, cancerous growth
According to Maslow's hierarchy, what are the most basic needs - correct answer Physiological,
biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation
All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? - correct answer
Cognitive, social, and physical
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One of the advantages to the life-stage approach is that it? - correct answer is practical and
doesnt require advanced levels of education to apply
If a patient asks what you do, you should? - correct answer explain honestly in simple terms
What consideration may be more relevant to the elderly patient than to an adolescent? -
correct answer pre-op planning, arthritis, decrease emotion, patient skin condition
When positioning the elderly patient, the team must be especially aware of ? - correct answer
fragile skin, restricted movement, joints, arthritis
What are the common physiological factors in the elderly? - correct answer Decreased cardiac
and respiratory function
If adult response is the norm, pediatric patients must be observed for what response? - correct
answer Paradoxical (opposite)
Several components make up an individual. Any need or activity related to genetics, physiology,
or anatomy is termed a __ need? - correct answer physical
Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of oneself is termed a __
need? - correct answer Psychological need
Any need or activity related to one's identification or interaction with another individual or
group is termed a __ need? - correct answer 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? - correct answer spiritual need
what is the term given to a genetic malformation known commonly as a cleft lip? - correct
answer cheiloschisis
An example of a non malignant neoplasm is? - correct answer uterine fibroid
according to the text, which two broad factors apply to a patient's reaction to health, illness,
and hospitilization? - correct answer adaptation and stress
Roy states that health involves becoming an integrated and __ person? - correct answer Whole
A non-specific response of the body to demand is known as? - correct answer stress
when an injury or illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and
mentally. An adolescent patient is very conscious about their? - correct answer body and
privacy
When an illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and mentally. Adult
patients are worried about? - correct answer death, infirmity, family, paying bills, job security
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What is an example of the interaction between personal and professional life? - correct answer
The nature of the OR results in some isolation from the general public
Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? - correct answer
consistent communication
What tasks belongs to the medical records department? - correct 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? - correct answer Radiologist
A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical care by elevating
standards of surgical education and practice is the? - correct answer American College of
Surgeons
The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance criteria for health care
organiations is the? - correct answer The Joint Commission
What is a proper job description? - correct 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? - correct answer Circulator and ST in circulating role
Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the hospital? - correct answer
Surgery department
When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical technologist offered? - correct
answer Dec 1970
Indirect patient care is provided by which departments? - correct answer administration,
maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing/central services, medical records
The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity - correct answer National Board
of Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants
The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the? - correct answer Scrub
tech or STSR
Accreditation is a term that applies to? - correct answer Programs
Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ? - correct answer Board of
Trustees
A CRNA is part of what OR group - correct answer non sterile anesthesia dept
,SURGICAL TECH STUDY GUIDE FOR CST EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025 LATEST
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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? - correct answer insurance
Medicare is a program administered by the federal government through which agency - correct
answer CMS
The __ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health activites worldwide? - correct
answer World Health Organization
What entity accredits surgical technology programs? - correct answer Commission
Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs
A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is known as? - correct answer
competencies
What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and other health care providers?
- correct answer professional
What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist, the patient, and the
patient's family? - correct answer therapeutic
According to the text, which factor is a key component in developing relationships? - correct
answer communication
According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? - correct answer
communication
Nonverbal communication involves several components. What term defines the following: be
open-minded and objective - correct answer receptive
A hospital that is owned by an individual or corporation in order to make a profit is known as
which type of hospital? - correct answer Proprietary
What program allows for a surgical technologist to ascend to positions of increased
responsibility - correct answer Clinical Ladder
What organization acts both as an insurer and a provider of medical services - correct answer
Health Maintenance Organization
What health care organization requires a primary care physician for all referrals? - correct
answer HMO
What hospital committee verifies the credentials of the physicians and specialized health care
personnel - correct answer Medical Staff Committee
The credential held by a nurse with several years experience in critical nursing and specialty
training in anesthesia is ? - correct answer CRNA
,SURGICAL TECH STUDY GUIDE FOR CST EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025 LATEST
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What department provides sterotactic services? - correct answer Diagnostic Imaging
What department provides blood replacement services? - correct answer Medical Laboratory
What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? - correct answer Risk
Management
What department provides informed consent? - correct answer Nursing Care Units
What department provides preventive measures against infection? - correct answer Infection
control
What department repairs broken equipment? - correct answer Maintenance/Biomed
What department oversees the sterilization needs of the hospital - correct answer
Purchasing/central services
What department maintains and verifies all patient records - correct answer Medical Records
What department provides rehabilitation for the post-op patient? - correct answer Physical or
Occupational therapy
Which entity is responsible for verifying that the school attended by the ST meets national
standarts? - correct answer ARC-ST
Surgical pathology treating life or limb is defined as which type of surgery? - correct answer
Emergent
Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known as? -
correct answer Urgent
A scheduled knee arthroscopy is classified as which type of surgery? - correct answer Elective
Given the focused and technical tasks of the OR, the team must struggle against the tendency
to? - correct answer 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 - correct answer Social need
A uterine fibroid is an example of what type of factor causing surgical intervention? - correct
answer nonmalignant neoplasm
What is a malignant neoplasm? - correct answer colon cancer, giloblastoma, cancerous growth
According to Maslow's hierarchy, what are the most basic needs - correct answer Physiological,
biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation
All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? - correct answer
Cognitive, social, and physical
, SURGICAL TECH STUDY GUIDE FOR CST EXAM | COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2025 LATEST
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One of the advantages to the life-stage approach is that it? - correct answer is practical and
doesnt require advanced levels of education to apply
If a patient asks what you do, you should? - correct answer explain honestly in simple terms
What consideration may be more relevant to the elderly patient than to an adolescent? -
correct answer pre-op planning, arthritis, decrease emotion, patient skin condition
When positioning the elderly patient, the team must be especially aware of ? - correct answer
fragile skin, restricted movement, joints, arthritis
What are the common physiological factors in the elderly? - correct answer Decreased cardiac
and respiratory function
If adult response is the norm, pediatric patients must be observed for what response? - correct
answer Paradoxical (opposite)
Several components make up an individual. Any need or activity related to genetics, physiology,
or anatomy is termed a __ need? - correct answer physical
Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of oneself is termed a __
need? - correct answer Psychological need
Any need or activity related to one's identification or interaction with another individual or
group is termed a __ need? - correct answer 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? - correct answer spiritual need
what is the term given to a genetic malformation known commonly as a cleft lip? - correct
answer cheiloschisis
An example of a non malignant neoplasm is? - correct answer uterine fibroid
according to the text, which two broad factors apply to a patient's reaction to health, illness,
and hospitilization? - correct answer adaptation and stress
Roy states that health involves becoming an integrated and __ person? - correct answer Whole
A non-specific response of the body to demand is known as? - correct answer stress
when an injury or illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and
mentally. An adolescent patient is very conscious about their? - correct answer body and
privacy
When an illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and mentally. Adult
patients are worried about? - correct answer death, infirmity, family, paying bills, job security
