Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant (CPCT/A) Quiz: Standard Precautions

What this quiz covers

This quiz focuses on Standard Precautions, giving you a quick way to practice the rules, question types, and explanations that matter most for Certified Patient Care Technician/Assistant (CPCT/A).

How to use this quiz

Try each quiz question before looking at the correct answer. Use the explanations to review missed ideas, then come back to similar questions until the pattern feels familiar.

Question 1

1. Coordinate with radiology to bring portable equipment to patient's room instead of transporting, since TB patients should never leave isolation rooms
2. Schedule transport during off-peak hours, have patient wear N95 respirator, use standard elevator, and remove respirator once outside the isolation room
3. Place patient in wheelchair with plastic covering, have patient wear surgical mask, use freight elevator only, and maintain surgical mask for technician
4. Have the patient wear a surgical mask, notify receiving department of precautions, use dedicated elevator if available, and maintain N95 respirator throughout transport (correct answer)

Question 2

1. Have the patient wear a surgical mask during ambulation while the technician maintains N95 respirator use throughout the interaction (correct answer)
2. Remove the N95 respirator since the patient will be wearing a surgical mask and the movement is within the same room
3. Maintain N95 respirator use and have the patient wear a surgical mask only if leaving the negative pressure room
4. Use a surgical mask instead of N95 since the patient is ambulatory and appears to be improving clinically

Question 3

1. Disinfect the equipment immediately with appropriate hospital-approved disinfectant and document the incident according to facility policy
2. Remove the blood pressure cuff from service permanently, since it cannot be adequately disinfected after MRSA exposure
3. Notify the nurse immediately, place the second patient on contact precautions, and initiate infection control reporting procedures (correct answer)
4. Continue standard precautions for the second patient but monitor closely for signs of infection development over the next 48 hours

Question 4

1. Allow the visit to continue since the family has already been exposed and shows no symptoms of illness
2. Politely educate the family about droplet precautions, provide surgical masks, and ensure proper mask wearing during the visit (correct answer)
3. Ask the family to leave immediately and return only after they've been medically cleared by their healthcare providers
4. Document the observation and report to the nurse after the family visit concludes to avoid interrupting family time

Question 5

1. Standard precautions only, since shingles is not contagious between adults and the patient is immunocompetent
2. Contact and airborne precautions, since shingles can transmit both varicella and zoster to susceptible individuals (correct answer)
3. Contact precautions only, since the lesions are covered and transmission requires direct contact with vesicular fluid
4. Droplet precautions only, since shingles primarily transmits through respiratory droplets when lesions are crusted over

Question 6

1. Contact, droplet, and airborne precautions with N95 respirator, face shield, gown, and gloves, combining all precaution types for maximum protection
2. Contact and airborne precautions with N95 respirator, face shield, gown, and gloves, treating this as the highest level of precaution needed
3. Standard precautions only with enhanced hand hygiene, since the patient is recovering and the PICC line is an internal infection
4. Contact and droplet precautions with surgical mask, face shield, gown, and gloves, since MRSA and COVID-19 have different transmission modes (correct answer)

Question 7

1. Gloves, eye protection, gown, mask - performing hand hygiene after glove removal and again after complete PPE removal (correct answer)
2. Gown and gloves together, eye protection, mask - performing hand hygiene only after complete PPE removal to avoid recontamination
3. Eye protection, mask, gloves, gown - performing hand hygiene after glove removal and again after gown removal
4. Mask, eye protection, gown and gloves together - performing hand hygiene after each item removal to ensure maximum safety

Question 8

1. Patient C first, then Patient B, followed by Patient A, and Patient D last, with complete PPE changes between each patient (correct answer)
2. Patient D first, then Patient A, followed by Patient B, and Patient C last, using alcohol sanitizer between all patients
3. Patient B first, then Patient C, followed by Patient A, and Patient D last, with soap-and-water handwashing after Patient D only
4. Patient A first, then Patient D, followed by Patient C, and Patient B last, with dedicated equipment for each isolation patient

Question 9

1. Contact precautions for the C. diff patient only, with dedicated equipment and soap-and-water handwashing between all patient interactions (correct answer)
2. Contact precautions for both patients with alcohol-based hand sanitizer use, since they share the same room environment
3. Airborne precautions for the C. diff patient with N95 respirator use and negative pressure room transfer
4. Droplet precautions for both patients with surgical mask use and maintaining 3-foot distance from each patient

Question 10

1. Continue contact precautions only, since VRE is the primary diagnosis and respiratory symptoms may be unrelated to infection control needs
2. Implement droplet precautions in addition to contact precautions for both patients until further medical evaluation is completed
3. Notify the nurse immediately and implement droplet precautions for the original patient while maintaining standard precautions for the roommate (correct answer)
4. Switch from contact to airborne precautions for both patients and request immediate room separation with negative pressure rooms