SURGICAL TECH STUDY GUIDE FOR CST EXAM – Questions & Answers (100% Verified)

SURGICAL TECH STUDY GUIDE FOR

CST EXAM – Questions & Answers

(100% Verified)

What is an example of the interaction between personal and professional life? -

ANSWER - The nature of the OR results in some isolation from the general public

Patient safety and hospital efficiency and effectiveness are related to? - ANSWER -

consistent communication

What tasks belongs to the medical records department? - 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? - 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

Surgical technologists are employed most often in which are of the hospital? - ANSWER

- Surgery department

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? - ANSWER -

competencies

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, which factor is a key component in developing relationships? -

ANSWER - communication

According to the text, what is key to teamwork among health care providers? -

ANSWER - communication

Nonverbal communication involves several components. What term defines the

following: be open-minded and objective - 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? - 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 -

ANSWER - Health 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

The credential held by a nurse with several years experience in critical nursing and

specialty training in anesthesia is ? - ANSWER - CRNA

What department provides sterotactic services? - ANSWER - Diagnostic Imaging

What department provides blood replacement services? - ANSWER - Medical

Laboratory

What department identifies patient hazards and develops solutions? - ANSWER - Risk

Management

What department provides informed consent? - ANSWER - Nursing Care Units

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 - ANSWER -

Purchasing/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? - ANSWER -

Emergent

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

Given the focused and technical tasks of the OR, the team must struggle against the

tendency to? - 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 - ANSWER - Social

need

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 - ANSWER -

Physiological, biological needs, water, o2, food, and temp. regulation

All developmental theories must account for changes in what domain? - ANSWER -

Cognitive, social, and physical

One of the advantages to the life-stage approach is that it? - ANSWER - is practical and

doesnt require advanced levels of education to apply

If a patient asks what you do, you should? - ANSWER - explain honestly in simple terms

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 ? -

ANSWER - fragile 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)

Several components make up an individual. Any need or activity related to genetics,

physiology, or anatomy is termed a __ need? - ANSWER - physical

Any need or activity related to the identification and understanding of oneself is termed

a __ need? - ANSWER - Psychological need