Perioperative
Refers to a patient who is admitted to a hospital
What is inpatient?
5,000-10,000
What is the normal range for WBCs?
It is the most important neurological assessment to make post-op.
What is LOC and awareness?
This assessment finding is common with Infectious disease.
What is Fever?
The nurse can explain the procedure and obtain informed consent.
What is False?
An effective system of communication used in many agencies for hand-off purposes
What is SBAR?
A disease has had an outbreak and has spread to several countries all over the world.
What is a Pandemic?
It is the most important thing the patient should do after surgery.
What is MOVE?
An invasion of pathogens into the body of a host.
What is an infection?
This is started as soon as a patient is admitted to the hospital.
What is Discharge Planning?
This can be made by the patient a few weeks before the scheduled surgery date.
What is blood donation?
The nurse may use these two medications to manage a fever.
What are Antibiotics and Antipyretics?
It's the next steps the PACU nurse takes after the patient hasn't urinated since they came out of surgery 2 hours ago.
What is bladder scan and straight cath?
It is the most dangerous mode of transmission for an infection.
What is Airborne?
It is the most important assessment to make in the PACU when a patient just comes out of surgery?
What is check the airway?
It is a potentially fatal reaction to certain general anesthetics.
What is Malignant Hypertension?
It is the practice of grouping patients together who are infected with the same pathogen.
What is Cohorting?
It is the most important assessment to make in the PACU when a patient just comes out of surgery.
What is check the airway?
Term used to describe microorganisms that do not cause disease and may be beneficial to the host.
What is normal flora?
The nurse would do this for a patient who is experiencing postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV).
What is assist the patient to the side lying position?
These are documented prior to surgery.
What are the Head to toe assessment and Vital signs?
It is the most common cause of a Health Care Associated Infection (HAI).
What is staff not following infection prevention policies?
Upon assessment the patient has normal bowel sounds, a distended abdomen, isn't producing gas, hasn't had a bowel movement, is complaining of abdominal discomfort.
What is Paralytic Ileus?
These are the most common methods of infection prevention.
What are hand hygiene and early removal of drains and catheters?
This is the biggest priority when it comes to perioperative care.
What is Patient Safety?