Flexible Endoscopes Guaranteed Success
1. What must be ensured for flexible endoscopes so that patient care is not negatively impacted?
- Answer: They must be competently reprocessed. ✔️
2. What does ethics refer to in healthcare?
- Answer: The practice of adhering to accepted professional standards of conduct. ✔️
3. Which ethical issue does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) address?
- Answer: Confidentiality. ✔️
4. What are recommended practices?
- Answer: They are statements outlining sound principles based on scientific evidence and expert
opinions. ✔️
5. How is regulation defined?
- Answer: It is a rule intended to govern behavior. ✔️
6. What does policy define in a healthcare context?
- Answer: It specifies what actions a department must undertake. ✔️
7. What does a procedure outline?
- Answer: It defines the steps necessary to perform a task. ✔️
8. What organization has published standards for infection prevention in processing flexible
gastrointestinal endoscopes?
- Answer: Society for Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA). ✔️
, 9. What role does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) play in healthcare?
- Answer: It registers and regulates environmental disinfectants used on non-living surfaces in
healthcare settings. ✔️
10. What is the function of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in relation to medical devices?
- Answer: The FDA regulates and ensures that products are safe and effective prior to their market
release. ✔️
11. What does the FDA require from medical device manufacturers concerning reusable products?
- Answer: They must provide specific reprocessing instructions for end users in healthcare facilities.
✔️
12. Which committee is responsible for reviewing and approving policies and procedures related to
reprocessing in the GI/Endoscopy suite?
- Answer: Infection Prevention and Control Committee. ✔️
13. What is the focus of the branch of science known as anatomy?
- Answer: It pertains to the structure and organization of body parts. ✔️
14. What does physiology study?
- Answer: It examines the functions of specific body parts. ✔️
15. What is the definition of a cell in biological terms?
- Answer: It is the smallest and most numerous structure that exhibits the basic properties of life. ✔️
16. What does the nucleus of a cell contain?
- Answer: It houses the cell's DNA. ✔️
17. Which organ is the largest internal organ in the human body?
- Answer: The liver. ✔️
1. What must be ensured for flexible endoscopes so that patient care is not negatively impacted?
- Answer: They must be competently reprocessed. ✔️
2. What does ethics refer to in healthcare?
- Answer: The practice of adhering to accepted professional standards of conduct. ✔️
3. Which ethical issue does the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) address?
- Answer: Confidentiality. ✔️
4. What are recommended practices?
- Answer: They are statements outlining sound principles based on scientific evidence and expert
opinions. ✔️
5. How is regulation defined?
- Answer: It is a rule intended to govern behavior. ✔️
6. What does policy define in a healthcare context?
- Answer: It specifies what actions a department must undertake. ✔️
7. What does a procedure outline?
- Answer: It defines the steps necessary to perform a task. ✔️
8. What organization has published standards for infection prevention in processing flexible
gastrointestinal endoscopes?
- Answer: Society for Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA). ✔️
, 9. What role does the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) play in healthcare?
- Answer: It registers and regulates environmental disinfectants used on non-living surfaces in
healthcare settings. ✔️
10. What is the function of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in relation to medical devices?
- Answer: The FDA regulates and ensures that products are safe and effective prior to their market
release. ✔️
11. What does the FDA require from medical device manufacturers concerning reusable products?
- Answer: They must provide specific reprocessing instructions for end users in healthcare facilities.
✔️
12. Which committee is responsible for reviewing and approving policies and procedures related to
reprocessing in the GI/Endoscopy suite?
- Answer: Infection Prevention and Control Committee. ✔️
13. What is the focus of the branch of science known as anatomy?
- Answer: It pertains to the structure and organization of body parts. ✔️
14. What does physiology study?
- Answer: It examines the functions of specific body parts. ✔️
15. What is the definition of a cell in biological terms?
- Answer: It is the smallest and most numerous structure that exhibits the basic properties of life. ✔️
16. What does the nucleus of a cell contain?
- Answer: It houses the cell's DNA. ✔️
17. Which organ is the largest internal organ in the human body?
- Answer: The liver. ✔️
