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Self-Test Lesson 1 Exercises
EXERCISES, LESSON 1
REQUIREMENT: The following exercises are to be answered by marking the lettered response that best answers the question, or by completing the incomplete statement, or by writing the answer in the space provided.
After you have completed all the exercises, turn to "Solutions to Exercises" at the end of the lesson and check your answers.
1. The surgical mask is worn primarily for the protection of the__________________________ .
2. The surgical cap is worn to help:
a. Keep blood off the specialist's hair.
b. Keep hair out of the specialist's eyes.
c. Prevent possible contamination of sterile field.
d. Help prevent electrostatic sparks.
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3. The scrub's shirt should be worn inside/outside the trousers.
(circle one)
4. Before entering the restricted or semi-restricted areas of the surgical suite, the operating room specialist must put on a clean:
a. Pair of gloves.
b. Surgical gown.
c. Scrub suit.
d. Pair of socks.
5. You are scheduled to scrub on a particular day. That morning, you note a strange rash on your hands. You should:
a. Call in sick.
b. Say nothing.
c. Report the rash to the surgeon.
d. Report the rash to your supervisor.
6. Before donning a surgical gown, members of the surgical team are required to:
a. Scrub their hands.
b. Sterilize their hands and arms.
c. Take a shower and shampoo their hair.
d. Don rubber glove.
7. The mask should be changed after each procedure, more often if:
a. You have a cold.
b. The patient has a cold.
c. The procedure is septic.
d. It becomes damp.
8. When the mask is removed, it should be held by the:
a. Nosepiece.
b. Lower edge.
c. Side edge.
d. Ties and/or elastic headband.
9. Surgical detergents are conveniently released from containers by a__________________.
a. Push button.
b. Hand-operated lever.
c. Knee-operated lever.
d. Foot-operated pedal.
10. Two types of surgical soaps that are available as standard items are:
____________________ and ____________________.
11. Surgical detergents will lather in water.
a. Hot.
b. Cold.
c. Hard.
d. All of the above types of water.
12. When using the brush-stroke method to scrub hands, circular strokes should be applied to all four sides of each finger.
a. 20.
b. 40.
c. 50.
d. 80.
13. If you touch the outside of your gown while putting it on, you should:
a. Do nothing.
b. Report to your supervisor.
c. Discard the gown.
14. In removing gloves between cases, how is the second glove removed?
a. Hold outer surface of the first glove "rubber to rubber" and pull off.
b. Place your finger inside the cuff of the glove "skin to skin" and pull off.
15. Before removing your gown between cases, what should you do with your gloves?
a. Remove and discard them.
b. Remove and retain them.
c. Wash them and keep them on.
d. Keep them on.
16. Between procedures, the specialist must be able to remove his gown and _____________ without contaminating his arms or hands.
a. Change his shoes.
b. Don a fresh mask.
d. Put on a new scrub suit.
e. Gloves.
17. Which of the following is/are advantageous in the use of the closed cuff method of gloving?
a. Choices c and d below.
b. No powder is needed.
c. Gown cuffs can be anchored without contamination.
d. Contamination of gloves from cuffs rolling on skin is eliminated.
Surgical gloves are packaged in pairs and in an ______________________________.
FOR EXERCISES 19 THRU 27. Read each of the following statements carefully before making a mark. Some of the statements are true and some are false. Indicate the answer selected by placing a "T" for true and "F" for false in the blank space provided.
_____19. The surgeon and his assistant are the only two members of the "sterile" team who are required to don sterile gown and gloves before touching sterile equipment.
_____20. Each member of the surgical team puts on his own gown and gloves by himself.
_____21. When gowning with the closed cuff method, you are to grasp the inside seam where the sleeve and cuff join.
_____22. A scrub may be timed by the clock or by counting strokes.
_____23. The same scrub procedure should be utilized every scrub, whether it is the first or last scrub of the day.
_____24. Surgical scrub brushes are always reprocessed and used over.
_____25. Military low quarter shoes are acceptable for surgical suited wear if shoe covers are placed over them.
_____26. Since the scrub wears gown, gloves, and cap, it is really not important whether he bathes every day or not.
_____27. Local policy is the final authority on the method employed for scrubbing the hands and arms.
Check Your Answers
SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES, LESSON 1
1. Patient.
(para 1-9a)2. c (para 1-8)
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3. inside (para 1-6a)
4. c (para 1-6a)
5. d (para 1-3a)
6. a (para 1-1a)
7. d (para 1-9b)
8. d (para 1-9d)
9. d (para 1-10b)
10. Providone Iodine; Hibiclens (para 1-13a)
11. d (para 1-12b(4))
12. a (para 1-16b(7))
13. c (para 1-17a)
14. b (para 1-28c,d)
15. d (para 1-27b)
16. d (para 1-27a)
17. a (para 1-21a(1), (2))
18. Individual sterile wrapper (para 1-20a)
19. F (para 1-1a)
20. F (para 1-25)
21. T (para 1-18e)
22. T (para 1-14b(1),(2))
23. T (Table 1-1)
24. F (para 1-11)
25. T (para 1-7b)
26. F (para 1-3a)
27. T (para 1-1e)
End of Lesson
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