Post-Op Nursing Care Questions And Answers
What is the primary way in which the nurse can lower a patient's risk for
postsurgical complications?
Adequately prepare the patient for discharge from the agency.
Provide continuity of nursing care throughout the patient's stay at the agency.
Identify deviations from normal that may interfere with the recovery process.
Evaluate the patient's emotional reaction to the surgical process.
C
Which action will help support the postsurgical patient's respiratory status?
Extending the patient's head when not contraindicated
Maintaining the patient in a supine position
Frequently calling the patient by name in a moderate tone
Reporting to the health care provider a systolic drop of 10 points or more from
the baseline blood pressure
A
What instruction might the nurse give to nursing assistive personnel (NAP)
caring for a postsurgical patient?
"Assess his urine output, and compare it to intake."
"Please reassure the family, and explain to them what is going on."
"Let me know when the patient's family arrives on the floor."
"Please teach him about the incentive spirometer while I speak with the
physician."
C
When reviewing ordered pain medicine for a postoperative patient whose pain is
not currently controlled, which nursing action has priority?
Asking the family member if the patient seems to be in pain
Reviewing the surgeon's preoperative pain medication order
Examining the patient's medical record for analgesics used with previous
surgeries
Asking the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) nurse when the patient last received
pain medication
D
When a patient returns to the unit from the PACU, how would the nurse assess
possible urinary retention?
Straight-catheterize the patient.
Complete a bladder scan.
Encourage the patient to void.
Check the chart for lab values specific to urinary function
B
What is the primary way in which the nurse can lower a patient's risk for
postsurgical complications?
Adequately prepare the patient for discharge from the agency.
Provide continuity of nursing care throughout the patient's stay at the agency.
Identify deviations from normal that may interfere with the recovery process.
Evaluate the patient's emotional reaction to the surgical process.
C
Which action will help support the postsurgical patient's respiratory status?
Extending the patient's head when not contraindicated
Maintaining the patient in a supine position
Frequently calling the patient by name in a moderate tone
Reporting to the health care provider a systolic drop of 10 points or more from
the baseline blood pressure
A
What instruction might the nurse give to nursing assistive personnel (NAP)
caring for a postsurgical patient?
"Assess his urine output, and compare it to intake."
"Please reassure the family, and explain to them what is going on."
"Let me know when the patient's family arrives on the floor."
"Please teach him about the incentive spirometer while I speak with the
physician."
C
When reviewing ordered pain medicine for a postoperative patient whose pain is
not currently controlled, which nursing action has priority?
Asking the family member if the patient seems to be in pain
Reviewing the surgeon's preoperative pain medication order
Examining the patient's medical record for analgesics used with previous
surgeries
Asking the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) nurse when the patient last received
pain medication
D
When a patient returns to the unit from the PACU, how would the nurse assess
possible urinary retention?
Straight-catheterize the patient.
Complete a bladder scan.
Encourage the patient to void.
Check the chart for lab values specific to urinary function
B
