Perioperative Care
The phase where nurses verify consent, teach patients, and identify high-risk complications before surgery.
What is preoperative?
iscrimination against people due to age, which nurses counter by promoting positive aging perceptions.
What is ageism?
Recommended hours of sleep for adults.
What is 7-8 hours per day?
Awareness of inner self and connection to a higher being, nature, or greater purpose.
What is spirituality?
Loss of job or status that others can verify and recognize.
What is actual loss?
Factors like obesity, smoking, OSA, and immunosuppression that raise surgical complication risks.
What are surgical risk factors (or special considerations)?
Unconscious assumptions about groups that can affect diagnoses and treatments, especially for minorities.
What is implicit (or unconscious) bias?
More than 5 breathing cessations lasting longer than 10 seconds per hour during sleep
What is sleep apnea?
Firm beliefs without physical proof, enabling transpersonal connections.
What is faith?
Fight-or-flight response with adrenaline release in Selye's GAS.
What is the alarm stage?
This nurse maintains sterility, provides supplies, and ensures correct specimen labeling.
Who is the circulating nurse?
Activities like bathing and dressing that assess an older adult's functional status and independence.
What are Activities of Daily Living (ADLs)?
The stage of sleep with vivid dreaming, cognitive restoration, and varying vital signs.
What is REM sleep?
Energizing force oriented to future goals, providing comfort in hardships.
What is hope?
Philosophy prioritizing symptom relief and quality of life for serious illness.
What is palliative care?
Loss of sensation in a specific area without loss of consciousness.
What is regional (or local) anesthesia?
An acute confusional state in older adults, not normal aging, often linked to infection or illness.
What is delirium?
Most common sleep disorder that includes trouble falling/staying asleep and women and older adults are at higher risk.
What is insomnia?
Contentment from inner self, linked to quality of life.
What is inner strength and peace?
Transferring emotions from a stressor to a safer target.
What is displacement (ego-defense mechanism)?
Computerized IV pump letting patients self-dose pain meds by button press.
What is Patient-Controlled Analgesia (PCA) Pump?
This model by Leininger emphasizes care based on patients' cultural beliefs, practices, and values.
What is culturally congruent care?
Promoted by limiting caffeine/nicotine 4 hours before bed and creating bedtime routines.
What is sleep hygiene?
Goes beyond physical boundaries, like awe at a sunset or holding a baby.
What is self-transcendence?
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance model.
What is Kübler-Ross (model of grief)?