AORN Periop 101 Final Exam Study Guide
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS SCORE
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- A critical perioperative nursing diagnosis within the PNDS is: - Ans What is risk for
perioperative positioning injury?
1.This type of needle point is what you would expect to be needed for suturing friable tissue such as the liver. - Ans What is a Blunt needle point?
- Characteristics included in the elements of a culture of safety within a healthcare
- Trust among healthcare team members*
organization: - Ans a. Commitment to safety as the first priority in providing care*
2.These particular wound closing items are available in a wide variety of instrument sizes. - Ans What are disposable stapler sets?
3.Give one example from TJC list of Do-Not-Use Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols. - Ans What is cc?
4.Following an excisional breast biopsy, the circulating nurse would anticipate the need to have available this type of drain - Ans What is a Jackson-Pratt?
5.The surgical wound classification for a total abdominal hysterectomy. - Ans What is Clean contaminated?
6.This position can cause physiological effects of circulatory and respiratory compromise due to pressure on the abdomen. - Ans What is Lithotomy Position?
7.To protect sensitive areas of the skin with appropriate padding is a recommended practice for this: - Ans What is to reduce the patient's risk of intraoperative skin injury.
8.An environmental sanitation practice that is required to limit the transmission of microorganisms to personnel when handling body fluid spills - Ans What is personal protective equipment?
9.It is recommended to inspect the active electrode for insulation defects to prevent this from occurring during MIS - Ans What is capacitive coupling?
- According to AORN RP for positioning the patient, the perioperative nurse should:
- Use a consistent method of procedure-specific position for each patient
- Rely on the surgeon's and anesthesia provider's assessments to guide positioning
- use additional precautions as appropriate based on unique patient considerations 1 / 2
What is...
- Depend on the patient's natural defense mechanisms to indicate the need for
positioning alterations - Ans c. use additional precautions as appropriate based on unique patient considerations
11.The disadvantage of using this type of wound closure is because they often cause more scarring than other skin closure methods. - Ans What is skin clips?
12.An automatic intraoperative suspension of a do-not-resuscitate decision violates a patient's ethical right to... - Ans What is Self-determination?
- This type of human factor error is responsible when a perioperative nurse is trying to
attend to several tasks at once - Ans What is situational-based error?
14.Restricting pathogenic organisms from the patient, environment, equipment, and supplies is the definition of.... - Ans What is aseptic technique?
16.Patient and caregiver education for continuing post-op care at home is the primary focus of this Phase of post anesthesia care. - Ans What is Phase II?
17.According to the Institute of medicine recommendations for improving patient safety, this organization has the greatest potential impact to make changes on improving pt safety - Ans What are Healthcare organizations?
- This statement about gloving technique is true
- When gloving another person, always glove the left hand first.
- The scrub gown should be fastened in the back before donning gloves
- Open glove technique is used for initial donning of the sterile gown and gloves.
- Closed glove technique is used to glove the surgeon or assistant. - Ans b. The scrub
What is...
gown should be fastened in the back before donning gloves
- Draping material is this source in the fire triangle? (fuel, ignition, oxidizer) - Ans
What is fuel source?
- The safest way to pass a cutting instrument to a surgeon is: - Ans What is place it in
a designated neutral zone with a verbal cue
- To place a patient safely in this particular position the knees are over the break in
the procedure bed to allow for knee flexion. - Ans What is Trendelenberg?
- A packaging system for items undergoing sterilization should possess this
characteristic:
What is....
- Made of only disposable materials
- to permit aseptic delivery of contents to the sterile field
- Maintain sterility of the items for a specified length of time.
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