When opening sterile supplies and instruments, where should the gown and gloves for the scrub person be opened?  Select the best answer.

Before items for surgery are opened and before the patient arrives in the operating room, preliminary room preparations must be performed.  This includes all of the following except _____.

____ cannot be sterilized, but the use of certain antiseptics along with standardized scrub techniques reduces the number of microbes and may produce continuous antimicrobial action.

When scrubbed in, the sterile person should keep his/her hands _____.

An unsterile person _____ look at sterile areas when approaching them.

Sterile personnel must pass other sterile personnel _____.

Only _____ items can be placed on the sterile field.

All of the following are principles of asepsis except ____.

The surgical gown is considered sterile ___.

The minimum distance a nonsterile person should remain from a sterile field is ___.