Exam 2: Foundations of Perioperative Patient Care Standards

Nursing and surgical technology schools and facilities require an employee to sign a confidentiality agreement on hiring.

Both perioperative nurses and surgical technologists work toward the common goal of providing the safest possible care so that patients achieve favorable surgical outcomes.

Which identifies one aspect of safe patient movement from the OR table to the stretcher?

Identifying the surgical site is always done with an "X" to verify the correct site.

Standards of practice for the surgical technologist include:

The pathology report does not become part of the patient's permanent record as added documentation of the diagnosis.

Which event is included on Medicare's "No Pay List" and will not be reimbursed?

Which is one of the "seven rights" of medication administration for each patient?

Who should be present for the standardized "hand-off" communication that occurs in the postanesthesia care unit?

To whom are perioperative nurses and surgical technologists accountable?

The intraoperative phase begins when the patient decides to undergo surgical intervention and ends when the patient is placed on the OR table.

The primary emphasis of the nurse's responsibility is focused on the scrub person and the surgeon's needs throughout the procedure.

What is an important aspect in the development of a surgical conscience?

Optimal patient care requires which element?

Failure of a caregiver to maintain accountability constitutes:

The ____ should document in writing the outcome of the final counts as correct or incorrect at the end of the procedure.

Postoperative infection can originate only in the OR from a break in technique by the surgeon or scrub person.

Evaluation is a process done only at the end of the procedure to reassess the patient's responses to implementation of the care plan.

No area of the body is considered "dirty."

A perioperative nurse should be reluctant to admit a frank or questionable break in sterile technique.