Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? – Answerconsistent communication
Preoperative diagnostic studies are performed by the? – Answer- Radiologist
A professional organization dedicated to the improvement of surgical care by elevating
standards of surgical education and practice is the? – Answer- American College of
Surgeons
The non-profit organization that develops standards and performance criteria for health
care organiations is the? – Answer- The Joint Commission
What is a proper job description? – 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? – Answer- Circulator and ST in circulating role
When was the first national certifying exam for the surgical technologist offered? –
Answer- Dec 1970
Indirect patient care is provided by which departments? – Answer- administration,
maintenance, housekeeping, food services, purchasing/central services, medical
records
The certification exam for surgical techs is given by what entity – Answer- National
Board of Surgical Technologists and Surgical Assistants
The surgical technologist serving in the traditional role is called the? – Answer- Scrub
tech or STSR
Accreditation is a term that applies to? – Answer- Programs
Hospital philosophy and policy are usually determined by the ? – Answer- Board of
Trustees
A CRNA is part of what OR group – Answer- 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? – Answer- insurance
Medicare is a program administered by the federal government through which agency –
Answer- CMS
The _ is a division of the United Nations that promotes health activites worldwide? – Answer- World Health Organization What entity accredits surgical technology programs? – Answer- Commission Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs A general description of the abilities needed to perform a job is known as? – Answercompetencies What term defines the relationship among coworker, surgeon, and other health care providers? – Answer- professional What term defines the relationship among the surgical technologist, the patient, and the patient’s family? – Answer- therapeutic According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? – Answercommunication A hospital that is owned by an individual or corporation in order to make a profit is known as which type of hospital? – Answer- Proprietary What program allows for a surgical technologist to ascend to positions of increased responsibility – Answer- Clinical Ladder What organization acts both as an insurer and a provider of medical services – AnswerHealth Maintenance Organization What health care organization requires a primary care physician for all referrals? – Answer- HMO What hospital committee verifies the credentials of the physicians and specialized health care personnel – Answer- Medical Staff Committee What department provides sterotactic services? – Answer- Diagnostic Imaging What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? – Answer- Risk Management What department provides preventive measures against infection? – Answer- Infection control What department repairs broken equipment? – Answer- Maintenance/Biomed
What department oversees the sterilization needs of the hospital – AnswerPurchasing/central services What department maintains and verifies all patient records – Answer- Medical Records What department provides rehabilitation for the post-op patient? – Answer- Physical or Occupational therapy Which entity is responsible for verifying that the school attended by the ST meets national standarts? – Answer- ARC-ST Surgical pathology treating life or limb is defined as which type of surgery? – AnswerEmergent Surgical pathology requiring treatment within a relatively short period of time is known as? – Answer- Urgent A scheduled knee arthroscopy is classified as which type of surgery? – Answer- Elective A uterine fibroid is an example of what type of factor causing surgical intervention? – Answer- nonmalignant neoplasm What is a malignant neoplasm? – Answer- colon cancer, giloblastoma, cancerous growth According to Maslow’s hierarchy, what are the most basic needs – AnswerPhysiological, biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? – AnswerCognitive, social, and physical What consideration may be more relevant to the elderly patient than to an adolescent? – Answer- pre-op planning, arthritis, decrease emotion, patient skin condition When positioning the elderly patient, the team must be especially aware of ? – Answerfragile skin, restricted movement, joints, arthritis What are the common physiological factors in the elderly? – Answer- Decreased cardiac and respiratory function If adult response is the norm, pediatric patients must be observed for what response? – Answer- Paradoxical (opposite) What is the term given to a genetic malformation known commonly as a cleft lip? – Answer- cheiloschisis
An example of a non malignant neoplasm is? – Answer- uterine fibroid According to the text, which two broad factors apply to a patient’s reaction to health, illness, and hospitilization? – Answer- adaptation and stress Roy states that health involves becoming an integrated and _ person? – AnswerWhole
When an injury or illness takes place, certain stressers affect the patient physically and
mentally. An adolescent patient is very conscious about their? – Answer- body and
privacy
When an illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and mentally.
Adult patients are worried about? – Answer- death, infirmity, family, paying bills, job
security
When an injury or illness takes place, certain stressors affect the patient physically and
mentally. Pediatric patients fear? – Answer- anesthesia
What religious group doesnt permit blood tranfusions – Answer- Jehovah’s witness
what term describes the following coping mechanism: “The patient does not want to
accept the truth of what is occuring” – Answer- denial
Which term describes the following coping mechanism: “The patient returns to an earlier
stage of life such as that of a child and exhibits behaviors unique to that stage of life” –
Answer- regression
What term describes the following coping mechanism: “A patient tries to give excuses
as to why he or she has a particular illness” – Answer- rationalization
What term describes the following coping mechanism: “a patient holds in thoughts and
feelings about a disease or illness” – Answer- repression
What types of values can create conflict in moral values? – Answer- Cultural and
Religous
In which religion is organ donation controversial – Answer- Buddhism
In which religion is birth control not allowed? – Answer- Catholic
What religion does not permit abortion under any circumstance? – Answer- American
indian, jehovahs witness, hinduism, Catholic
What religion uses the Torah as a holy text? – Answer- Judaism