Nur 1600 Exam 1
1. The period of time surrounding a surgical procedure?: Perioperative
2. Name three things that perioperative includes?: 1. Peroperative
2. Intraoperative
3. Postoperative
3. The term used for before surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term?: Peroperative
Educator, advocate and health promotion.
4. What is the term used during surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term: Intraoperative
Safety and advocacy.
5. What is the term used after surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term?: Postoperative
On going evaluation and stabilization of clients, prevention of post-op complications.
,6. What are these things:
1. Diagnostic: exploratory laparotomy.
2. Curative: fibroid tumors-hysterectomy.
3. Restorative: hip replacement.
4. Palliative surgery makes the client more comfortable. Does not cure, ex.
suprapubic catheter.
5. Cosmetic surgery reconstructs the skin and underlying structures, ex. scar
revision.: Purpose of surgery
7. When would you collect these things:
-Hx and data collection.
-Age.
,-Drugs and substance use (look for withdrawls)
-Medical hx, including cardiac and pulmonary hx (specifically comorbities ex.
DM and CAD).
-Previous surgeries and anasthesia.
-Blood donations (this will tell you if they may have a disease like HIV)
-Discharge planning.: Collaborative management assessment
8. What are these things?
-Age.
, -Medications.
-Lifestyle.
-Chronic illness-inc. risk
-Prior surgical experiences-ex. anesthesia rx.
-Type of surgical procedure-ex. exploratory laparotomy inc. risk for paralytic
ileus.: Risk factors based on assessment
9. What are these things:
-Baseline vital signs.
-Focus on problem areas identified by the clients hx on all body systems
affected by the surgical procedures.
-Report any abnormal assessment findings to the surgeon.: Physical Assessment/Clinical
1. The period of time surrounding a surgical procedure?: Perioperative
2. Name three things that perioperative includes?: 1. Peroperative
2. Intraoperative
3. Postoperative
3. The term used for before surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term?: Peroperative
Educator, advocate and health promotion.
4. What is the term used during surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term: Intraoperative
Safety and advocacy.
5. What is the term used after surgery?
What is the nurses responsibility for this term?: Postoperative
On going evaluation and stabilization of clients, prevention of post-op complications.
,6. What are these things:
1. Diagnostic: exploratory laparotomy.
2. Curative: fibroid tumors-hysterectomy.
3. Restorative: hip replacement.
4. Palliative surgery makes the client more comfortable. Does not cure, ex.
suprapubic catheter.
5. Cosmetic surgery reconstructs the skin and underlying structures, ex. scar
revision.: Purpose of surgery
7. When would you collect these things:
-Hx and data collection.
-Age.
,-Drugs and substance use (look for withdrawls)
-Medical hx, including cardiac and pulmonary hx (specifically comorbities ex.
DM and CAD).
-Previous surgeries and anasthesia.
-Blood donations (this will tell you if they may have a disease like HIV)
-Discharge planning.: Collaborative management assessment
8. What are these things?
-Age.
, -Medications.
-Lifestyle.
-Chronic illness-inc. risk
-Prior surgical experiences-ex. anesthesia rx.
-Type of surgical procedure-ex. exploratory laparotomy inc. risk for paralytic
ileus.: Risk factors based on assessment
9. What are these things:
-Baseline vital signs.
-Focus on problem areas identified by the clients hx on all body systems
affected by the surgical procedures.
-Report any abnormal assessment findings to the surgeon.: Physical Assessment/Clinical
