University of Scranton

Department of Nursing

Nursing 350

Perioperative Clinical Preparation

The following clinical assignment is to be completed prior to the beginning of the perioperative observation experience and turned in to your clinical instructor.

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?
 
Location
 Frequency
OR   
PACU  
Clinical Unit  
6.  What are symptoms of hypovolemic shock?
 
 
 
 

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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