Pre/Post-Op
Nursing
Nursing
The role of the PACU nurse
What is monitor airway, breathing, circulation; manage pain and post-anesthesia recovery?
The circulating nurse’s primary responsibility
What is manage the environment, documentation, and support sterile technique?
Two major types of pain
What are acute and chronic pain?
Key difference between benign and malignant tumors
What is benign don’t invade or metastasize?
First thing to assess post-op with low oxygen
What is the airway?
First nursing priority post-op
What is assess airway patency?
Early sign of malignant hyperthermia
What is increased end-tidal CO2 and muscle rigidity?
Non-pharmacologic method for pain relief
What is repositioning or guided imagery?
A primary prevention screening for breast cancer
What is a mammogram?
This assessment comes before palpation for abdominal pain
What is auscultation of bowel sounds?
A common respiratory complication after surgery
What is atelectasis?
Primary method of excreting inhaled anesthetics
What is exhalation via the lungs?
WHO’s recommended pain management approach
What is the analgesic ladder?
A common side effect of chemotherapy
What is neutropenia, nausea, or hair loss?
ABCs in nursing assessment
What are Airway, Breathing, and Circulation?
What the nurse teaches about incision care and red flags before discharge
What is wound care, signs of infection, pain control, and when to call the doctor?
This action breaks sterility
What is turning your back on the sterile field?
This opioid is frequently used for palliative dyspnea
What is morphine?
Why the nurse teaches skin care for radiation
What is to protect fragile, irradiated skin?
Therapeutic communication for emotional patient
What is ”Would you like to talk about how you’re feeling?”
Nursing strategies to prevent post-op pulmonary complications
What is incentive spirometry, coughing/deep breathing, and early ambulation?
This must occur before surgery begins
What is the surgical time-out?
Priority symptom management at end of life
What are pain, dyspnea, and anxiety?
Best approach to include family in oncology care
What is provide education and emotional support?
Best practice for older adult learning
What is use clear language, repeat info, and allow time?