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Module 22.1
Test Review
Question | Answer |
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List the aspects of proper gowning | from the feet up |
How are most cleanliness violations caused? | dirty hands |
Is it okay to wear scrubs home as long as they are cleaned an sanitized prior to entering a clean room? | No |
Can jewlery be worn in the compounding area? | No |
If you scratch your face while wearing gloves, what should you do? | discard gloves or disinfect with a foam hand disinfectant |
When washing hands, you should scrub the hands, nails, wrists, and forearms with a brush, warm water and bacterial soap for at least how long? | one min an 30 sec |
Identify the most common source of contamination with pharmacy compounded sterile preparations. | touching the critical sites |
All manipulations inside a LAFH must be preformed at least ____ inches inside the hood to prevent ___________. | six, contamination |
What should the technician do before working in the LAFH? | Turn on and allow to run for at least 30 min and disinfect with 70% isopropyl acohol |
Items inside the LAFH should be placed away from other objects and the walls of the hood to prevent what? | Zones of turbulance |
How often should the walls and ceilings of the IV room be cleaned? | Monthly |
as long as the tech is wearing gloves? | Certain parts, not hub or plunger |
Do syringes only use a luer lock to secure the needles? | No |
What is coring? | Introducing particle matter into a sterile fluid through the process of penetrating the outer seal of a vial with a needle |
What significance do air bubbles in a syringe have on medication dosing? | Prevents accurate measurement of solution |
How do vials differ from ampules? | Vials hold both powders and liquids and a considered closed-system containers while ampules hold only liquids and are considered an open-system container |
TPN stands for: | Total Parental Nutrition |
What is the difference between possitive and negative pressure? | Possitive is greater than the environment and negative is less |
Identify the USP labeling requirements for admixture solutions. | Name/amount of drugs added/name of admixture solution, approximate final total volume of preparation, beyond use date, route of administration, initials of person who prepared ivs, storage conditions |
What should a tech pay close attention to when working with the drug products? | look-alike/sound-alike drugs, misleading labels and production |
Which is the most serious type of an FDA Drug recall? | Class I |
Aseptic preparation | Procedures designed to preclude contamination by microorganisms during the processing |
Biological safety cabinet | A ventilation controlled device designed as promary barrier for handling hazardous biological material |
Carcinogen | any cancer producing substance |
HEPA | a particle filter, retaining airborne particles and microorganisms |
IA | intra-arterial route of administration |
Parental | a route administration that passes the gastrointestinal tract |
What is the importance of accurate measurement? | It's important for the safety of the patient |
Workings of a horizontal laminar airflow hood | 1. prefiltered air is accelerated, 2. electrical blowers draws contaminated room air through a prefilter, 3. final filter constitutes the entire back portion of hoods work area, 4. sweeps filtered air from the back of the hood to the front |
Label the parts of the syringe | luer lock tip, barrel, calibration marks, plunger piston, final edge of plunger piston, top callar, plunger, flat end |