Exam 2: Patient Safety and Risk Management

Which of the following situations requires informed consent from the patient/family?

The OR is a danger-prone area for both patients and staff.Providing a safe environment of care for the patient involves identifying,mitigating,and managing the hazards inherent in surgical care.Choose the answer below that completes the blanks in this sentence:The risk of the surgical hazard of _ can be mitigated through .

Proper care and handling of surgical specimens is imperative for correct diagnosis,treatment,and prognosis planning of the patient.Select the response that best reflects correct specimen care and handling.

Informed consent is both a requirement and a patient right.The perioperative nurse's responsibility in terms of informed consent is to:

After Sara Martin emerged from anesthesia and was extubated,she was transferred to the PACU by the anesthesia provider and perioperative nurse.She had an excision of a benign subglossal cyst.A hand-off report was given to the accepting PACU nurse.The anesthesia provider and perioperative nurse described the procedure,allergies,weight in kilograms,intake and fluid loss,anesthetics and medications,pain,and several other critical parameters of physiologic status.Choose the answer below that completes the blanks in this sentence:_ is the first element of information that should be shared in the hand-off report;the __ has the responsibility for the ultimate transfer of information.