Name:_____________________________
1. What are potential emotional concerns of the patient who is about
to have surgery.
2. Whose responsibility is it to obtain the operative consent?
When might a consent be considered invalid?
3. What constitutes a surgical scrub?
4. What actions might be taken if a patient has a temperature of 101.60F
on the morning of surgery and why?
5. How often are vital signs monitored?
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7. How is the patient protected from pressure ulcers?
8. How is the patient protected from electrical shock?
9. How is the patient protected from wound infection? What special preoperative
cleansing is used for open-heart surgery patients?
10. What precautions are instituted
for a patient that has a latex allergy?
11. What procedures are followed if there is a discrepancy in the sponge
or instrument count?
12. What are the differences in the responsibilities and educational
preparation between the scrub nurse and circulating nurse?
13. What is the physiological basis for the use of lasers in surgery?
Print and bring the OR
DAY Assignment with you on the day of the perioperative experience.
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