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Adding Items To a Sterile Field (1)
Adding Items To a Sterile Field (1)
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Adding Items To a Sterile FieldThe nurse is placing supplies on a sterile field that is being prepared for a dressing
change. Which action is likely to contaminate the field?
A. Placing a role of sterile tape on the field
B. Holding a prepackaged sterile item in the non-dominant hand while opening it
C. Adding supplies that will expire in 2 days
D. Placing the needed supplies near the back of the sterile field - ANS-Placing the
needed supplies near the back of the sterile field
A patient requires all of the following interventions. Which one would the nurse perform
last?
A. Change the dressing on the patient's newly established suprapubic catheter.
B. Administer the patient's prescribed medication.
C. Offer the patient a bedpan.
D. Position the patient for maximum comfort and ease of breathing. - ANS-Change the
dressing on the patient's newly established suprapubic catheter.
Which direction to nursing assistive personnel (NAP) would help to maintain a sterile
field while conducting a sterile procedure?
A. "Please see to it that nothing contaminates this sterile field while I get some
additional supplies."
B. "I'd like you to make sure that the patient doesn't reach toward the sterile field while
I'm changing the dressing."
C. "Hand me the item closest to the edge of the sterile field."
D. "Place a sterile drape over these supplies for a moment while I answer my other
patient's call light." - ANS-"I'd like you to make sure that the patient doesn't reach
toward the sterile field while I'm changing the dressing."
While preparing supplies on a sterile field, a gauze pad falls off the sterile field. What
should the nurse do?
A. Nothing
B. Create a new sterile field
C. Use sterile forceps to move the gauze pad toward the center of the sterile field
D. Dispose of the gauze before continuing the procedure - ANS-Nothing
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