NSG 501 EXAM 3 QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS LATEST UPDATE 2026
What is perioperative nursing care? - Answers It includes preoperative, intraoperative, and
postoperative care focused on assessment, prevention of complications, and coordination of care
across phases.
How is surgery classified? - Answers Surgery is classified based on seriousness (major or minor),
urgency (elective, urgent, emergency), and purpose (diagnostic, ablative, palliative,
reconstructive/restorative, cosmetic).
What are the assessment cues in the preoperative surgical phase? - Answers Medical and surgical
history, medication history and allergies, smoking and substance use, family support, coping,
expectations, and physical exam.
What are common nursing diagnoses for the preoperative phase? - Answers Anxiety, risk for
aspiration, acute pain, risk for infection.
What interventions are included in the preoperative phase? - Answers Informed consent,
preoperative teaching, infection prevention, maintain fluid and electrolyte balance.
What is the focus of the intraoperative nursing process? - Answers Maintain surgical asepsis, monitor
physiological status, ensure patient safety and coordination.
What complications should be monitored for in the postoperative phase? - Answers Infection,
respiratory and cardiac complications, pressure injury.
What is surgical asepsis? - Answers Sterile technique that is free of microorganisms; any break in
sterile technique results in contamination.
What are the stages of pressure injuries? - Answers Stage 1: intact skin, non-blanchable redness;
Stage 2: partial-thickness skin loss, exposed dermis; Stage 3: full-thickness skin loss, adipose tissue;
Stage 4: full-thickness skin and tissue loss with exposed bone/muscle; Unstageable: base covered by
slough/eschar; Deep tissue injury: purple non-blanchable intact skin.
What are the types of wound healing intentions? - Answers Primary intention: edges approximate;
Secondary intention: wound left open; Tertiary intention: delayed closure.
What are complications of wound healing? - Answers Hemorrhage, infection, dehiscence,
evisceration (emergency).
What should be assessed in wound care? - Answers Risk factors such as mobility, nutrition, and
moisture; prevent pressure injury; monitor healing and complications.
What does the Braden Scale assess? - Answers Risk based on sensory perception, moisture, activity,
mobility, and nutrition.
What are important assessments for clients with altered sensation-perception? - Answers Mental
status, cranial nerves, motor system, sensory system, reflexes.
What are basic neurological examination findings? - Answers Level of consciousness (LOC),
orientation (A+O x 4), pupils, speech, movement, sensation.
What are common nursing diagnoses for sensory-perceptual alterations? - Answers Risk for
aspiration, risk for falls, impaired swallowing.
What are age-related changes in older adults? - Answers Decreased adaptive response, increased
chronic conditions, functional ability varies.
What are challenges to public health highlighted by the pandemic? - Answers High healthcare
spending, poor outcomes, chronic disease burden, health disparities.
What is the purpose of the National Prevention Strategy? - Answers Focuses on injury and violence-
free living, tobacco-free living, preventing drug abuse and excessive alcohol use, healthy eating,
mental and emotional well-being, and reproductive and sexual health.
What are the goals of Healthy People? - Answers Provide science-based, ten-year national objectives
for improving the health of all Americans, encourage collaborations, empower individuals, and
measure the impact of prevention activities.
What is the Community Guide? - Answers A collection of evidence-based findings to help select
interventions to improve health and prevent disease.
What are the definitions of quality and safety in healthcare? - Answers Safety: prevention and
reduction of harm through system effectiveness; Quality: consistent delivery of care achieving desired
outcomes aligned with evidence-based practice.
What are major national quality and safety frameworks? - Answers AHRQ, QSEN, TJC, NPGs, CMS.
What does QSEN stand for? - Answers Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
What is perioperative nursing care? - Answers It includes preoperative, intraoperative, and
postoperative care focused on assessment, prevention of complications, and coordination of care
across phases.
How is surgery classified? - Answers Surgery is classified based on seriousness (major or minor),
urgency (elective, urgent, emergency), and purpose (diagnostic, ablative, palliative,
reconstructive/restorative, cosmetic).
What are the assessment cues in the preoperative surgical phase? - Answers Medical and surgical
history, medication history and allergies, smoking and substance use, family support, coping,
expectations, and physical exam.
What are common nursing diagnoses for the preoperative phase? - Answers Anxiety, risk for
aspiration, acute pain, risk for infection.
What interventions are included in the preoperative phase? - Answers Informed consent,
preoperative teaching, infection prevention, maintain fluid and electrolyte balance.
What is the focus of the intraoperative nursing process? - Answers Maintain surgical asepsis, monitor
physiological status, ensure patient safety and coordination.
What complications should be monitored for in the postoperative phase? - Answers Infection,
respiratory and cardiac complications, pressure injury.
What is surgical asepsis? - Answers Sterile technique that is free of microorganisms; any break in
sterile technique results in contamination.
What are the stages of pressure injuries? - Answers Stage 1: intact skin, non-blanchable redness;
Stage 2: partial-thickness skin loss, exposed dermis; Stage 3: full-thickness skin loss, adipose tissue;
Stage 4: full-thickness skin and tissue loss with exposed bone/muscle; Unstageable: base covered by
slough/eschar; Deep tissue injury: purple non-blanchable intact skin.
What are the types of wound healing intentions? - Answers Primary intention: edges approximate;
Secondary intention: wound left open; Tertiary intention: delayed closure.
What are complications of wound healing? - Answers Hemorrhage, infection, dehiscence,
evisceration (emergency).
What should be assessed in wound care? - Answers Risk factors such as mobility, nutrition, and
moisture; prevent pressure injury; monitor healing and complications.
What does the Braden Scale assess? - Answers Risk based on sensory perception, moisture, activity,
mobility, and nutrition.
What are important assessments for clients with altered sensation-perception? - Answers Mental
status, cranial nerves, motor system, sensory system, reflexes.
What are basic neurological examination findings? - Answers Level of consciousness (LOC),
orientation (A+O x 4), pupils, speech, movement, sensation.
What are common nursing diagnoses for sensory-perceptual alterations? - Answers Risk for
aspiration, risk for falls, impaired swallowing.
What are age-related changes in older adults? - Answers Decreased adaptive response, increased
chronic conditions, functional ability varies.
What are challenges to public health highlighted by the pandemic? - Answers High healthcare
spending, poor outcomes, chronic disease burden, health disparities.
What is the purpose of the National Prevention Strategy? - Answers Focuses on injury and violence-
free living, tobacco-free living, preventing drug abuse and excessive alcohol use, healthy eating,
mental and emotional well-being, and reproductive and sexual health.
What are the goals of Healthy People? - Answers Provide science-based, ten-year national objectives
for improving the health of all Americans, encourage collaborations, empower individuals, and
measure the impact of prevention activities.
What is the Community Guide? - Answers A collection of evidence-based findings to help select
interventions to improve health and prevent disease.
What are the definitions of quality and safety in healthcare? - Answers Safety: prevention and
reduction of harm through system effectiveness; Quality: consistent delivery of care achieving desired
outcomes aligned with evidence-based practice.
What are major national quality and safety frameworks? - Answers AHRQ, QSEN, TJC, NPGs, CMS.
What does QSEN stand for? - Answers Quality and Safety Education for Nurses.
