Exam 36: Preoperative and Postoperative Care

The nurse is planning care for a preoperative patient.Which intervention is implemented to ensure safe nursing care?

When providing care for a postoperative patient, it is important for the nurse to include which postoperative exercise?

The nurse understands that paralytic ileus is a possible postoperative complication.Which assessment provides the nurse with information about this postoperative complication?

When planning care for a PACU or recovery room patient, how often should the nurse plan to assess the patient?

The nurse is helping the patient prepare for surgery.The patient has removed her jewelry and glasses.Which action should the nurse take to keep the jewelry safe?

While providing care for a postsurgical patient who has not received spinal anesthesia, the nurse recognizes that which position is required to maintain a patent airway in the recovery phase?

When planning care for a surgical patient, the nurse recognizes that surgical site infections account for what percentage of hospital-acquired infection?

The patient has been taught how to use diaphragmatic breathing.When the patient returns from surgery, however, he cannot be placed upright and must remain flat.What does the nurse tell the patient about performing the diaphragmatic exercises?

The nurse is providing care for a patient who is recovering in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).Given that the patient is restricted to the supine position, which intervention provides the patient with adequate chest expansion?

The goal of prophylactic antibiotic therapy is to protect the patient from infection with as little risk as possible.To achieve this goal, the nurse recognizes that antibiotics should be administered when they will be most beneficial.When would that be?

When providing teaching to a patient, which action is important to help the patient in performing controlled coughing?

Therapies and regimens designed to prevent venous thromboembolism ( VTE ) include which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

A patient who is scheduled for colon surgery is wearing a simple wedding band that he cannot remove.Which intervention is implemented to provide safe patient care?

The patient is in the hospital awaiting surgery.When asked to remove her jewelry, the patient asks why she needs to remove her navel ring.What explanation should the nurse provide?

Being overweight or obese increases the risk for many diseases and health conditions, including which of the following? (Select all that apply.)

When assessing a postoperative patient, the nurse notes tenderness, redness, and swelling in the left calf.What should the nurse do next?

As a patient is prepared for surgery, which finding indicates that the nurse should inform the surgeon that the surgery may need to be postponed?

Which of the following have been identified as evidence-based guidelines to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs)? (Select all that apply.)

Upon entering a patient's room, the nurse finds that the abdominal surgical wound has eviscerated.Which intervention is safest for the nurse to implement?

While planning care for a surgical patient, the nurse recognizes that which of the following effects of hyperglycemia is seen in the immediate postoperative period?