Nursing Interventions
Teaching patients leg exercises prior to surgery helps to prevent this potential complication.
What is deep vein thrombosis (DVTs)?
This type of pain is experienced by an individual who has had a limb amputated.
What is phantom pain?
______ Anesthesia would be administered for procedures such as dental work, suturing, lacerations and biopsies.
What is Local Anesthesia?
This term refers to the nothing by mouth
What is NPO?
The person who needs to obtain VS post-operatively.
Who is the nurse?
The nurse notes the diabetic client recovering from abdominal surgery has bowel poking from the surgical site which she quickly covers with sterile gauze moistened with sterile saline.
What is evisceration?
The point at which pain is perceived
What is the pain threshold?
This is the person responsible for sustaining the patient's life and ensuring that the patient remains comfortable during surgery.
What is the Anesthesia provider (CRNA or anesthesiologist)
This term refers to the Post Acute Care Unit
What is the PACU?
First Priority post operative assessment(s)
What is complete an initial assessment with vital signs to determine the patient's condition and establish a baseline for subsequent comparision. Start with number one priority: Airway (is there an airway in place, RR- depth, and pattern, lung sounds, skin color, pulse ox, cap refill)
Accupressure and accupuncture can be used in addition to pharmacological pain relief to focus on specific body areas.
What are complementary and alternative therapies?
The two ways we classify pain
What are nociceptive and neuropathic pain?
Initiated by the circulating nurse, this is verification of consent, surgical Site, patient name, DOB prior to start of surgery
What is a "Time Out"
A surgery done to augment a body part
What is cosmetic surgery?
Following surgery, the initial dressing change should be performed by this person.
If the patient has a latex allergy, what should the nurses' priority action be prior to surgery?
What is place an allergy band on the patient?
Wong Baker Faces, PAIN-AD, Numerical, FLACC
What are pain scales?
This scoring system is used to ensure the patient is able to be discharged home safely and they are back to pre-surgery VS, and level of consciousness.
What is the Aldrete Scoring system?
A voluntary surgery scheduled a week or more in advance intended to improve a patient's quality of life, either physically or psychologically.
What is Elective Surgery
What is check for bladder distention and perform a bladder scan?
The best intervention for your patient with postoperative gas pains.
What is ambulation?
This type of pain control is explained as pain being a "gate" where small nerve fibers carry pain signals (opening the gate) to the spinal cord, while large fibers carry non-painful stimuli like touch or rubbing or use of a TENS unit (closing the gate).
What is the Gate Theory of Pain control?
This is the provider who performs a surgical procedure and will explain the surgery to the patient and the family, and obtain the signatures on the surgical consent prior to the surgery.
Who is the surgeon (or provider)?
A surgery done to cure a disease
What is curative surgery?
The post operative patient has orders to ambulate in the hallway 3 times a day; what person should be performing this intervention?
Who is the therapist or the nurse?