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Intraoperative
Clean Up
Nursing Care
Emergency
Potpourri
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The OR has been set up for a total abdominal hysterectomy. The surgeon is delayed and the personnel in the room take a break. According to the AORN Recommended practices, the open sterile field should be

What is Under Constant Surveillance

100
The complete elimination or destruction of all forms of microbial life
What is Sterilization
100
This person has the ultimate responsibility for obtaining informed consent
Who is the Surgeon
100
The Acronym RACE stands for
What is Rescue-Alarm-Contain-Evacuate
100
Distractions and _____________ during the transfer of patient care should be minimized.
What are interruptions
200
This clamp is designed to hold bowel tissues and has opposing smooth blunt edges
What is a Babcock
200
This type of sterilization should only be used when there is not enough time to process an instrument by the preferred method.
What is immediate use sterilization (Flash Sterilization)
200
This is intended to prevent wrong site surgery and consists of 3 main parts: preoperative verification, marking of the operative site and a time out
What is The Joint Commission's Universale Protocol
200
This drug should be available to reverse a Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) crisis
What is Dantrolene (Dantrium)
200
The transfer of information and responsibility for care from one provider to another
What is handoff (communication)
300
This Wound Classification is used when there is bile leaking from the gallbladder into the patient's peritoneal cavity
What is Contaminated (Class III)
300
The first step in the sterilization process
What is Decontamination
300
Patients who have allergies to foods such as: bananas, avocado, chestnut, apricot, kiwi and tomato, may also have a coexisting allergy to
What is Latex
300

An unexpected occurrence involving death or risk of serious physical or psychological injury

What is a sentinel event

300
If marking the operative site is indicated, this marking should occur
What is prior to the patient entering the operating room
400
Surgical site infection, diabetes, and smoking are all causes of
What is Delayed Wound Healing
400
When performing Immediate Use Steam Sterilization the temperature for the cycle should be
What is 270 degrees
400
The best method that a perioperative nurse can utilize to prevent the spread of infection is
What is Washing hands before and after patient contact
400
During a rapid-sequence induction, the perioperative nurse must apply cricoid pressure until
What is the Anesthesia Provider tells you to release
400
The PNDS is a standardized nursing vocabulary that describes perioperative nursing. What is the meaning of this acronym?
What is the Perioperative Nursing Data Set
500
A Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) order is rescinded during the immediate perioperatve period by
Who is the patient (pre-sedated)
500
This item shows that one or more critical parameters for sterilization have been met
What is a Chemical Indicator
500
A risk reduction strategy used for a patient with a known latex allergy or sensitivity
What is Schedule the case as the first procedure of the day
500
During a surgical procedure, the perioperative nurse notices that the patient has tachycardia and a continuously rising temperature, and the blood in the operative field has turned dark red. These assessment findings are consistent with
What is Malignant Hyperthermia
500
Because of the presence of an oxygen-enriched environment, surgical procedures around this area carry an increased risk for fire
What are procedures of the head and neck