healthcare Flashcards
Patient care areas of health care facilities _______ areas such as business offices, corridors, lounges, day rooms,dining rooms, or similar areas
a. do not include
b. Include
does not include
The patient care area is any portion of a health care facility where patients are intended to be _____ .
a. examined
c. moved
b. treated
d. either a or b
A examined or B treated
**In Health care facilities, patient bed receptacles located in general-care areas shall be supplied by at least two branch circuits, which ____ permitted to originate from two separate transfer switches on the emergency system.
a. are b. are not
are
**Each general-care area patient bed location in a health care facility must be provided with __ receptacle{s).
a. one single or one duplex
c. two single or one duplex
b. six single or three duplex
d. four single or two duplex
four single or two duplex
In the critical care areas of health care centers, each patient bed shall be provided with a minimum of ________ duplex receptacles.
a. ten
c. one
b. three
d. four
three
( general = 4 )
(critical = 6 )
The _______ system shall supply major electric equipment necessary for patient care and basic hospital operation.
a. emergency
c. life safety
b. equipment
d. none of these
equipment
The essential electrical systems in a health care facility shall be comprised of _______ .
a. the emergency system
c. the isolated power system
b. the equipment system
d. both a and b
both A & B
emergency system and equipment system
517.30
**Locations where flammable anesthetics are employed are Class I, Division I locations that shall extend _____.
a. upward to the structural ceiling
c. upward to a level 5 feet above the floor
b. upward to a level 8 feet above the floor
d. 10 feet in all directions
upward to a level 5 feet above the floor
517.60 (A) (1)
**In a health care facility, receptacles and attachment plugs in a hazardous (classified) location within an anesthetizing area shall be listed for use in Class I, Group _______ locations.
a. A
c. C
b. B
d. D
C
597.61 (A)(5)
In anesthetic areas, health care equipment frequently in contact with bodies of persons shall not exceed ______ volts.
a. 50
c. 230
b. 125
d. 10
10
517.64
In anesthetic areas, low-voltage equipment that is frequently in contact with the bodies of persons or has exposed current-carrying elements shall _______ .
a. operate on an electrical potential of 10
c. be approved as intrinsically safe or
volts or less double-insulated equipment
b. be moisture-resistant
d. all of these
all of these:
-operate on an electrical potential of 10
-be approved as intrinsically safe or
volts or less double-insulated equipment
-be moisture-resistant
In a health care facility, the maximum internal current permitted to flow through a line isolation monitor, when any point of the isolated system is grounded, shall be ______ .
a. 15 amperes or less
c. 1 milliampere
b. no more than I ampere
d. 10 milliamperes
1 milliampere
517.160(B)(2)
Transfer equipment, including automatic transfer switches, shall be _______ .
a. automatic
c. approved by the authority having
jurisdiction
b. identified for emergency use
d. all of these
all of these
-automatic
-approved by the authority having jurisdiction
-identified for emergency use
700.6 (A)
**Automatic transfer switches shall be ______.
a. electrically operated and mechanically held
b. mechanically operated and electrically held
c. electrically operated and electrically held
d. mechanically operated and mechanically held
electrically operated and mechanically held
Audible and visual signal devices for an emergency system shall be provided, where practicable, for the purpose(s} of indicating ______ .
a. that the battery is carrying load
c. that the battery charger is not functioning
b. derangement of the emergency source
d. all of these
all of these
-that the battery is carrying load
-that the battery charger is not functioning
-derangement of the emergency source
700.7 (A)(B)(C)
Wiring from an emergency source to emergency loads shall ______ other wiring.
a. not enter the same raceway or box with
c. be kept entirely independent of all
b. not enter the same cable or cabinet with
d. all of these
all of these
-not enter the same raceway or box with
-be kept entirely independent of all
-not enter the same cable or cabinet with
700.9(B)
Emergency circuit wiring shall be permitted to enter which of the following types of equipment with normal circuit wiring?
a. transfer switches
c. UPS systems
b. exit or emergency luminaires supplied from two sources
d. both a and b
both a & b
-transfer switches
-exit or emergency luminaires supplied from two sources
700.9(B)(1)(2)
Emergency circuit wiring must be designed and located in such a manner so as to minimize the possibility of failure because of ______.
a. vandalism
c. fire
b. floods
d. all of these
-vandalism
-fire
-floods
700.9 (C)
**Emergency lighting, emergency power, or both must be available in a building within a time not to exceed seconds.
a. 5
c. 30
b. 10
d. 60
10
700.12
A storage battery supplying emergency lighting and power shall maintain not less than 87.5 percent of full voltage at total load for a period of at least _______ hour(s).
a. 0.5
c. 1.5
b. 1
d. 2
1.5 hr (=90 min)
700.12 (A)
Where an internal combustion engine is used as the prime mover for an emergency system, an on-site fuel supply shall be provided for not less than __ hours of full-demand operation of the system.
a. 2
c. 4
b. 3
d. 6
6
700.12(B)(2)
ammendments
Unit equipment (battery packs) shall be on the same branch circuit as that serving the normal lighting in the area and connected _______ any local switches.
a. with
c. after
b. ahead of
d. none of these
ahead of
700.12(f)
The alternate source for emergency systems _______ be required to have ground-fault protection of equipment with automatic disconnecting means.
a. shall b. shall not
shall not
700.26
The equipment grounding terminal buses of the normal and essential branch-circuit panelboards serving the same individual patient care vicinity shall be connected together with an insulated continuous copper conductor not smaller than A WG.
a. 14
c. 10
b. 12
d. 8
10
Each patient bed location in critical care areas shall be supplied by at least _______ branch circuits.
a. two
c. four
b. three
d. six
two
517.19
Individual branch circuits shall not be required for portable, mobile, and transportable medical X-ray equipment requiring a capacity of not over _______ amperes.
a. 50
c. 100
b. 60
d. 125
60 amp
517.71 (B)
The ampacity of supply branch-circuit conductors and the current rating of overcurrent protective devices for X-ray equipment shall not be less than ____ percent of the momentary rating or ____ percent of the long-time rating, whichever is greater.
a. 50, 100
c. 50,125
b. 100, 50
d. 100, 125
50, 100
Demand calculations for sizing Of the generator sel(s) for the essential electrical system shall be based on ______.
a. prudent demand factors and historical data
c. feeder calculation procedures described in Article 220
b. connected load
d. any combination of the above
any combination of:
-prudent demand factors and historical data
-feeder calculation procedures described in Article 220
-connected load
517.30(D)
