Dental Department (H200)

Question 1

What is the size of the water reservoir on the dental chairs?

Question 2

What do you put into the dental chair water reservoir to ensure optimum water quality and how do you use it?

Question 3

How do you ensure each pen at the front desk has been cleaned after every patient use?

Question 4

When storing items, how many inches should they be above the floor?

Answer 4

8 to 10 inches off the floor

Question 5

When do you flush the water lines in the chair and for how long?

Answer 5

XX Seconds at the beginning of the day and XX seconds between patients

Question 6

The water purifier, what type of water does it become after purification?

Answer 6

Ionized Water

Question 7

How often do you change out the filter in the water purifier?

Question 8

What is the process of cleaning the water purifier and the stand-alone reservoir container?

Question 9

How often does the privacy curtain gets changed and who does it? When was the last time the current XRAY curtain was changed out?

Answer 9

House keeping changes out the curtains between 6-12 months or visibly soiled. The current curtain was changed out on DDMMMYYYY.

Question 10

What is the process of cleaning the Pano Machine?

Question 11

What is the process of cleaning the Xray machines in each DTR?

Question 12

What is the process of cleaning the dental chair?

Question 13

What is the process with used instruments immediately after patient use?

Question 14

What is the process of used hand pieces after patient use?

Question 15

What enzymatic solution do you use with unused instrument?

Question 16

How do you store soiled linen and who manages the transport of bagged soiled linen.

Answer 16

Soiled linen must be in a covered hamper with a bag. Full soiled linen bags are tied up and are staged in the hazard room awaiting daily housekeeping pickup at the end of the day.

Question 17

What is the process of evacuating the dental space with staff and patients? Where is the muster point?

Question 18

What is the process of a code blue inside the dental department?

Question 19

What is the process for a code green inside the dental department?

Question 20

What is the process of an active Shooter event while inside the dental department?

Question 21

What is the area clearance around the hand washing sinks and why?

Answer 21

6 Inches. To protect items from cross-Contamination due to hand washing.

Question 22

Why must Peroxide wipes or any other moist disinfectants containers always closed.

Answer 22

Wipes containers must always be closed to ensure towels do not dry out and ready for use.

Question 23

Why do we replace stickers or labels that are peeling off their intended surfaces?

Answer 23

To ensure bio burden doesn’t collect on the exposed sticky surfaces

Question 24

What is the Temperature ranges in the DTR?

Question 25

What are the temperature ranges in the clean room that stores sterile instruments and packs?

Question 26

What is the process when the DTRs’ temperature goes out of range?

Question 27

What is the process when the sterile instrument room goes outside the proper temperature?

Question 28

What type of air pressure is required in the hazardous and dirty rooms?

Answer 28

Negative Pressure

Question 29

What type of air pressure is required in the sterile room, supply room, and clean linen rooms?

Answer 29

Positive Air Pressure

Question 30

What is the process of cleaning the amalgam traps and the oil filter in the dental chairs?

Question 31

How do you clean the UV Light thingy?

Question 32

How do you clean the XRay probes?

Question 33

How many hours must a patient encounter be completed after each procedures?

Question 34

How often does precious metal gets audited and by who?

Question 35

What is the process of obtaining clean scrubs and how is it stored?

Question 36

When does the dental provider and technician conduct patient time outs and what is discussed?

Question 37

How often does the water get checked and how?

Question 38

What is the process to protect the anesthesia stored in the DTRs?

Question 39

What is the process to treat an emergency dental case outside the normal working hours?

Question 40

Who are personnel that have been trained and certified to handle biohazard materials in the dental department?

Question 41

How often does the sharps container gets closed out?

Question 42

What information must be on the sharps container while it is still in use?

Question 43

What PPE is required for patients during XRay procedures?

Question 44

What are the PPE for the staff members directly engaged in dental patient care?

Question 45

In the dental department what is temporally stored under the sinks in the DTRs?

Answer 45

Enzymatic spray and a clean biohazard bin only during patient care.

Question 46

What is the process for patients who are late or no show to their appointments?

Question 47

PPE XRay protection. What are they and how do you clean and store them while not in use?

Question 48

With patients who cannot speak or comprehend English, what resources do we have that can assist with the language barrier?

Question 49

Who are the Dental Department’s Patient Relation Representative?

Question 50

In the Dental Department, who is trained and appointed to conduct water quality testing?

Question 51

In the Dental Department, who is trained and certified to work in the SPD?

Question 52

What is the process of a code pink?

Question 53

Per the MIFU, the multi-dose Filtech Supreme Composite solution is good for how many days after its initial use?

Question 54

For multi-dose solutions, what is the labeling process after the dose’s initial use?

Question 55

Inside the DTR, other than the prepping used instruments and hand pieces, what is the process to ensure the DTR is ready for the next patient.

Question 56

What process does the Dental Department have to ensure maintenance of Joint Commission compliance?

Answer 56

The Dental Department conducts field day every Friday afternoon using the Command’s Field Day Checklist. Upon completion, the checklist is sent to the Quality Management Department every Monday by noon and keeps a copy in the department’s Joint Commission binder.

Question 57

What is the command’s resource to search for MIFUs and what are steps to search for a specific item’s MIFU?

Answer 57

NMRTC Pendleton uses www.onesourcedocs.com. Log into the website using the command’s username and password and enter the make and model of the item and equipment in the search query.

Question 58

What is the required clearance between the ceiling and items/furnitures in the rooms, and why?

Answer 58

18 inches to ensure fire sprinklers can reach every inch of the space during a fire emergency.

Question 59

Why do we store liquids on lowest part of storage shelves?

Answer 59

If a leak occurs, it will not damage other items directly below it

Question 60

Why must the bottom-most storage shelf have a solid barrier on its bottom?

Answer 60

To deflect any cross-contamination into the clean items when mopping the floors

Question 61

In Dental, what is our most common “Sound Alike/Look Alike” medication?

Answer 61

Anesthetic:
Lidocaine
Septocaine
Marcaine
etc

Question 62

How many eyewash stations and where are they?

Answer 62

3
-Lab
-Decon Room Diry
-Decon Room Clean

Question 63

Per the MIFU, the multi-dose Viscostat solution is good for how many days after its initial use?

Question 64

Per the MIFU, the multi-dose Hemodent solution is good for how many days after its initial use?