Exam 4: Care of Preoperative and Intraoperative Surgical Patients

The nurse is caring for a postsurgical patient whose surgical procedure lasted 3 hours.The nurse anticipates that the patient will experience:

The nurse is performing a preoperative assessment on a patient scheduled for surgery today.The patient reports a history of drinking 2 glasses of wine daily,smoking cigarettes for 20 years,completing a round of corticosteroids for asthma control 2 days ago,and taking the last dose of passion flower extract yesterday.The nurse's best action is:

The nurse instructs the presurgical patient that hypothermia may occur during surgery due to: (Select all that apply.)

The nurse working in a surgeon's office is providing preoperative teaching to a patient who is scheduled for a needle breast biopsy.Which statement by the patient demonstrates a need for further preoperative teaching? (Select all that apply.)

The nurse warns the patient that,in order to retard the growth of microorganisms,the operating room is kept at a temperature of _____ to _____ degrees.

The nurse recognizes a need for further instruction about the emotional preparation for surgery when a patient says:

The nurse explains that the person responsible for verifying that the consent form is signed and that the surgical site is marked is the:

The presurgical patient asks why it is that her height and weight are recorded.The nurse replies that the information is essential for: