Which of the Following Statements Regarding Processing of Contaminated Instruments

question 12

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding processing of contaminated instruments is (are) true?

• A) Instruments should be processed in an area separate from where clean instruments are stored.
• B) Personnel should wear heavy-duty utility/puncture-resistant gloves.
• C) Instruments only need cleaning if they have visible contamination.
• D) Instruments should be heat-sterilized unless they are heat sensitive.
• E) Cleaning an instrument precedes all sterilization and disinfection processes.
• F) Options a, b, d, and e are true.

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Definitions:

Availability Bias

A cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the likelihood of events based on their recall of immediate examples.

Representativeness Bias

A cognitive bias in decision-making where individuals judge probabilities or make judgments based on how much one thing resembles another, often leading to errors in assessment.

Conjunction Fallacy

A logical error where people wrongly assume that specific conditions are more probable than a single general one.

Framing Error

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