CST drill: Ancillary Duties

10 questions · Untimed · Explanation after each question

Ten questions on administrative duties, safety hazards, ethics and law, and instrument cleaning, sterilization and maintenance. Ancillary Duties is 23 of the 150 scored questions on the real exam.

Line drawing of a steam sterilizer with wrapped instrument trays on a rack, a loading cart, a fire extinguisher and a clipboard

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