Infection Prevention
This area is secured from public access by signage, doors and security measures.
What is the Semi-restricted Zone?
The Universal Protocol for preventing the wrong site, wrong procedure and wrong person surgery consist of these three key steps.
What is conducting a pre-procedure verification process, marking the procedure site and performing a time out?
1.Decrease and control bleeding 2.minimize the need for blood replacement 3. optimize the surgical field view 4. avoid major organ damage 5. shorten the length of surgery 6. decrease the risk of infection 7. decrease health care costs.
What are the seven goals of hemostasis?
The surgical patient who ate bacon, eggs and toast 4 hours before surgery will have the procedure delayed for this amount of time.
What is 8 hours?
The person who is responsible for obtaining an informed consent.
Who is the surgeon or other licensed practitioner who is performing the procedure?
The FDA category 1 rating for skin antisepsis products include the following: Fast acting, reduces microbial counts, broad spectrum and has this one other quality.
What is persistence?
These are the elements of the fire triangle.
What is an ignition source, fuel and an oxidizer?
Mechanical hemostasis can be achieved with these 3 things.
What is direct pressure, sutures, staples & clips and dressings?
The injection of local anesthetics near nerve fibers that causes a reversible loss of sensation overal an area of the body is this category of anesthesia.
What is Regional Anesthesia?
Maintaining competence in your nursing practice, knowing you scope of practice and maintaining confidentiality in the health care setting.
What are some strategies to reduce the perioperative nurse's risk of legal action?
Sterile gloves should be changed at this interval.
What is every 90 to 150 minutes?
The supine position is also referred to as the dorsal recumbent position. These are the modifications of the supine position.
What is lithotomy , sitting/semi-sitting and Trendelenburg/reverse Trendelenburg?
The three tenets of radiation safety.
What is Time, Distance and Shielding?
The acronym ERAS stands for this.
What is Enhanced Recovery After Surgery?
(Pts and their providers follow these specific protocols Prior to surgery, the day of surgery, during surgery and after surgery)
When administering a medication, the perioperative RN should verify these things.
What is the right patient, the right route and the right time?
Sterile instruments should be covered during these times.
What is when not used immediately or during periods of increased activity?
At a minimum the specimen label should identify these basics.
What is 1. patient identifiers,
2. specimen name, side and tissue type and the
3. date and time of collection?
The circulator should verify the IED leads are not between the active electrode and this.
What is the dispersive pad?
The RN to patient ratio for a critical, unstable, complicated patient.
What is 2:1?
The individual who cannot recollect (a failure of memory) or they pay little or no attention or their attention is diverted can cause this type of error.
What is a Skill-based error?
This is the result of a tight adhesion of bioburden to the instrument's surface.
What is bioburden?
The rationale for lowering the patient's legs slowly when removing them from stirrups after surgery.
What is a shift in the circulatory volume can occur?
This metal indicates there is tungsten in the jaws or blades of an instrument
What is gold?
This reinforces what the patient knows and understands.
What is the teach-back method?
Everyone receives the same standard of care.
What is health equality?