Chapter 2: Select the Correct Answer Exercise

Scheduled 8-hour shifts each day with 24-hour call 3 days in a row

Hazardous: Employers have a responsibility to ensure staff has sufficient rest time to prevent fatigue.

Use of hands and fingers to retract skin edges, recap needles, and load scalpel blades

Hazardous: Instruments should be utilized for their intended use.

Multiple medications are identified by color-coded containers

Hazardous: Medications must be labeled "from a labeled container to a labeled container."

Use of a neutral zone when surgeon is using a microscope

Hazardous: Should use hand-to-hand passing technique when using a microscope or loupes

Once the patient moves to OR table from the stretcher, all pressure points are padded first

Hazardous: The safety strap is applied first to prevent falls.

During oral surgery using a laser, dry towels cover the eyes and nasal cannula

Hazardous: Wet towels outline the site to prevent accidental fires during laser surgery.

Bar-coded medications are used with handheld wireless devices

Safety

Place sharp end of needle within the tips of needle holder after final use to pass it

Safety

Surgeon places sharp in the neutral zone when finished with it

Safety

Verbally state "sharp" when using hand-to-hand passing of a sharp instrument

safety