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Health Care
lesson 4: Patient Care Spaces
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Risk assessment is the process designed to place a facility space in a defined risk category. NFPA 99 defines ? risk categories. | 4 |
| Which risk assessment category designates a space where procedures create the most danger to a patient? | Category 1 |
| Activities, systems, or equipment whose failure ? patients, staff, or visitors shall be designated as Category 3. | is not likely to cause injury, but can cause discomfort to |
| Activities, systems, or equipment whose failure is likely to cause minor injury to patients, staff, or visitors shall be designated as ? . | Category 2 |
| Activities, systems, or equipment whose failure would have no impact on patient care shall be designated as ? . | Category 4 |
| Annex material in NFPA 99 (A.4.1) classifies a lawn sprinkler system as a ? risk. | Category 4 |
| Risk ? spaces shall be permitted to be served by a Type 1 EES or a Type 2 EES. | Category 2 |
| Article 517, Part II of the NEC does not cover ? of a health care facility. | 517.10(B) business offices, non-patient care spaces, and waiting rooms |
| Section 517.13(B) requires that a second effective ground-fault current conductor path must be an insulated copper conductor, clearly identified along its entire length by ? . | green insulation 517.13(B)(1) |
| All panelboards serving a patient care space shall be bonded together by a continuous insulated copper conductor not smaller than number ? . | 10 AWG 517.14 |
| true/false Isolated grounding receptacle(s) are allowed to be installed within a patient care vicinity. | false |
| The grounding conductor connected to the grounding terminals of isolated ground receptacles shall be clearly identified along the equipment grounding conductor's entire length with ? . | 517.16(B)(1) green insulation with one or more yellow stripes |
| The insulated grounding conductor and ? be connected to the grounding terminals of isolated ground receptacles; but ? be connected to the box or enclosure & to non–current-carrying conductive surfaces of fixed electrical equipment. | shall not / shall 517.16(B)(2) |
| Wiring of the life safety branch and the critical branch shall be permitted to occupy the same raceway of other circuits if such wiring ? . | is in a common junction box connected to an exit luminaire supplied from two sources or is in an exit luminaire supplied from two sources 517.31(C)(1) |
| Essential electrical system branch circuits that serve patient care spaces shall not be permitted to be installed using ? . | Schedule 40 PVC conduit encased in 1 1/2" of concrete 517.31(C)(3) |
| A ? is a space, within a location intended for the examination and treatment of patients, extending six feet horizontally and extends vertically to seven feet six inches above the floor. | patient care vicinity 517.2 |
| In a Category 2 general care space, each patient bed location will be served by at least ? branch circuits. | 2 |
| Each Category 2 general care patient bed location shall have a minimum of ? receptacles. | 8 |
| Each Category 1 critical care space shall have a minimum of ? receptacles. | 14 |
| Each operating room shall have a minimum of ? receptacles. | 36 |
| A patient equipment grounding point shall connect to the grounding terminal of all grounding type receptacles in a patient care vicinity using an equipment-bonding jumper no smaller than ? . | 10 AWG 517.19(D) |
| A(n) ? is a multiple winding type transformer, with the primary and secondary windings physically separated. | isolation transformer |
| What is the principal benefit of using an isolation transformer in place of a GFCI device in a health care facility? | Isolation transformers allow continuity of service in the event of a ground fault condition. |
| Isolated power systems must be installed ? . | in accordance with manufacturer instructions, in compliance with NEC Section 517.160 and with listed equipment |
| In an isolated power system supplying 120 VAC branch circuits, what voltage would be measured from line to line? | 120 VAC |
| For single-phase isolated power systems, circuit conductors shall be ? . | orange and brown with a color stripe not white, green, or gray 517.160(A)(5) |
| Where an isolated circuit conductor supplies 125 VAC, single-phase, 15- or 20-amp receptacles, the striped orange conductor must connect to ? . | the receptacle terminal identified for the grounded conductor 517.160(A)(5) |
| Which type of conductor insulation typically provides enough insulation resistance value to be used in an isolated power system? | XHHW |
| Isolated power branch circuits that serve patient care locations are required to have ? effective ground-fault current pathways. | 2 |
| When a ? signal lamp of a line isolation monitor is lit, the total hazard current from either isolated conductor to ground has reached a threshold of five milliamperes. | red |
| A ? is the area in a patient care space where a procedure is performed that is normally subject to wet conditions while patients are present of which condition is intimate to the patient or staff. | wet procedure location 517.2 |
| Wiring systems in wet procedure locations are permitted to be protected by ? . | using GFCI equipment to limit the fault-current to not more than 6 mA or using isolated power systems to limit ground-fault current |
| true/false Operating rooms are always classified as Category 1 spaces. | true |
| Part IV of Article 517 classifies ? locations as those spaces where flammable agents are not used. | other than hazardous |
| The NEC requires operating rooms to be outfitted with at least ? battery-powered lighting unit(s). | 1 |
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