Prep U Unit 1 Study Questions
A fractured skull would be classified under which category of surgery based on urgency?
Emergent
The family members of a dying client are finding it difficult to verbalize their feelings for and show tenderness to the client. Which intervention should a nurse perform in such a situation?
Encourage the family members to express their feelings and listen to them in their frank communication
The nurse practitioner has four patients with chronic illness that require consistent medical and nursing management. Select the condition that is the best example of a "chronically critical and progressively ill" condition.
End-stage renal disease
A mother of three young children has been diagnosed with stage III breast cancer and is distraught. Which statement best communicates a spirit of hopefulness to this client?
"Let's take this one day at a time; remember you have your daughter's dance recital next week."
A client is undergoing thoracic surgery. What priority education should the nurse provide to assist in preventing respiratory complications?
Splint the incision site using a pillow during deep breathing and coughing exercises.
During which phase of the Trajectory Model of chronic illness is the focus of nursing care on reinforcing positive behaviors and offering ongoing monitoring?
Stable
The nurse is with a client who has a chronic illness and is reinforcing positive behaviors and teaching about health promotion. For which phase of the trajectory model of chronic illness are these nursing actions appropriate?
Stable
An unconscious patient with normal pulse and respirations would be considered to be in what stage of general anesthesia?
Surgical anesthesia
In advance of a client's scheduled appendectomy, the nurse spends significant time explaining to the client what will happen, both before the procedure and after the procedure is complete. The primary reason the nurse puts so much effort into preoperative teaching is to:
increase the likelihood of a successful recovery.
A client in the hospital is nearing the end of life, is unconscious, and is experiencing gurgling from the respiratory tract. Which route will the nurse use to provide the client atropine?
intravenous
The nurse understands that the purpose of the "time out" is to:
maintain the safety of the client.
The primary objective in the immediate postoperative period is
maintaining pulmonary ventilation.
The nurse is reviewing the pre-admission laboratory findings of the client scheduled for surgery. Which laboratory value would be of greatest concern to the nurse?
potassium 6.2 mEq/L
A nurse is assessing a postoperative client with hyperglycemic blood glucose levels. Which post-surgical risk factor would decrease if the surgical client maintained strict blood glycemic control?
wound healing
You are the nurse working in an ambulatory surgery center. A teenage son of your clients ask you why so many people have surgery. What would be your best reply?
"Many people have diagnostic or short therapeutic surgical procedures."
The nurse expects informed consent to be obtained for insertion of:
A gastrostomy tube
A client is scheduled for a surgical procedure. When planning the client's care, the nurse should consider that which of the following conditions will increase the client's risk of complications after surgery?
A history of diabetes
The nurse is changing the dressing of a client who is 4 days postoperative with an abdominal wound. The nurse has changed this dressing daily since surgery. Today, the nurse notes increased serosanguinous drainage, wound edges not approximated, and a ¼-inch (6 mm) gap at the lower end of the incision. The nurse concludes which of the following conditions exists?
Dehiscence
Which is the initial stage of grief, according to Kübler-Ross?
Denial
The nurse will educate the client about the risk for developing , and if the client does not implement diaphragmatic breathing exercises in the postoperative period of care.
Pneumonia, bronchospasm, atelectasis
A patient has had a traumatic amputation of the left leg above the knee following an industrial accident. What type of disability does this patient have?
Acquired disability
The physician is attending to a 72-year-old client with a malignant brain tumor. Family members report that the client rarely sleeps and frequently reports seeing things that are not real. Which intervention is an appropriate request for the hospice nurse to suggest to the physician?
Add haloperidol to the client's treatment plan.
All nurses care for clients who are grieving. It is important for the nurse to understand the grieving process for which reason?
Allows for the nurse to facilitate the grieving process
When is the ideal time to discuss preoperative teaching?
Preadmission visit
Which intervention should a nurse perform during the grieving period when caring for a dying client?
Avoiding criticizing or giving advice
The nurse is caring for a dying client in a hospice setting. The family is unsure whether to go home for rest or spend the night with the client. Which body system would the nurse assess to provide the first data on decline?
Cardiovascular system
The nurse is completing a postoperative assessment for a patient who has received a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent. The nursing assessment includes careful monitoring of which body system?
Cardiovascular system
The nurse recognizes which disorder as a developmental disability in a patient?
Cerebral palsy
The nurse is evaluating the client's understanding of diet teaching aimed at promoting wound healing following surgery. The nurse would conclude teaching was ineffective if the client selects which of the following?
Cheeseburger, french fries, coleslaw, and ice cream
The OR personnel responsible for maintaining the safety of the client and the surgical environment is the:
Circulating nurse
The nurse recognizes that the client most at risk for mortality associated with surgery is the:
Client with chronic alcoholism
Medicare and Medicaid hospice benefit criteria allow clients with a life expectancy of 6 months or less to be admitted to hospice. However, the median length of stay in a hospice program is just 21.3 days. Which reason explains the underuse of hospice care services?
Clients and families view hospice care as giving up
A client who has been demonstrating signs of impending death is awake, alert, and wants to see grandchildren after they attend school. Which action will the nurse take to support this client's request?
Contact the family to ask for grandchildren to come to visit the client.
Which action should be incorporated into the client teaching plan to prevent deep vein thrombosis?
Hourly leg exercises
An anxious client being prepared for surgery is encouraged to concentrate on a pleasant experience or restful scene. What cognitive coping strategy would the nurse document as being used?
Imagery
A student nurse is scheduled to observe a surgical procedure. The nurse provides the student nurse with education on the dress policy and provides all attire needed to enter a restricted surgical zone. Which observation by the nurse requires immediate intervention?
Mask is placed over nose and extends to bottom lip.
A client is undergoing preoperative assessment. During admission paperwork, the client reports having enjoyed a hearty breakfast this morning to be ready for the procedure. What is the nurse's next action?
Notify the surgeon.
Which health care profession has the ultimate responsibility to provide appropriate information regarding a nonemergent surgery?
Physician
The nurse is caring for a client who develops an evisceration. What nursing intervention is most appropriate when an evisceration occurs in the surgical wound of a client who has undergone surgery?
Place sterile dressings moistened with normal saline over the protruding organs and tissues.
The nurse is preparing an older adult for a surgical procedure. Which action will the nurse take to protect the client from injury during the operative period?
Protect bony prominences with extra padding.
The nurse observes that a postsurgical client has hemorrhaged and is in hypovolemic shock. Which nursing intervention will manage and minimize hemorrhage and shock?
Reinforcing the dressing or applying pressure if bleeding is frank
A nurse is teaching a client about deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prevention. What teaching would the nurse include about DVT prevention?
Report early calf pain.
The anesthesiologist will use moderate (conscious) sedation during the client's surgical procedure. The circulating nurse will expect the client to:
Respond verbally during the procedure
Once the operating team has assembled in the room, the circulating nurse calls for a "time out." What action should the nurse take during the time out?
Review the scheduled procedure, site, and client.
A client is placed on the operating room table for the surgical procedure. Which surgical team member is responsible for handing sterile instruments to the surgeon and assistants?
Scrub nurse
A community nurse is working to decrease the incidence of cardiac disease in Nicaragua. The nurse should plan educational health promotion activities around which element?
Smoking cessation
A physician calls the nurse for an update on his client who underwent abdominal surgery 5 hours ago. The physician asks the nurse for the total amount of drainage collected in the Hemovac since surgery. The nurse reports that according to documentation, no drainage has been recorded. When the nurse finishes on the telephone, she goes to assess the client. Which assessment finding explains the absence of drainage?
The Hemovac drain isn't compressed; instead it's fully expanded.
A nurse has been providing in-home hospice care to an older adult client with lung cancer for more than six months. The family asks the nurse how long the Medicare hospice services will continue. What is the nurse's best response?
The Medicare hospice services can continue as long as the physician and hospice director agree about the client's terminal condition.
When does the nurse understand the patient is knowledgeable about the impending surgical procedure?
The patient participates willingly in the preoperative preparation.
The nurse cares for a client who is three hours post op abdominal hysterectomy and begins to develop hiccups. What nursing assessment will the nurse monitor more closely with the client's new symptoms?
Wound approximation
Place sterile dressings moistened with normal saline over the protruding organs and tissues.
Wound infection
The nurse's assessment of a postop client reveals a temperature of 103.2°F, tachycardia, and client complaints of increased incisional pain. What does the nurse recognize that this client is experiencing?
Wound infection
A client is preparing for a surgical procedure is taking corticosteroids for Crohn's disease. What is most important for the nurse to monitor during the operative experience with the client?
adrenal insufficiency
The nurse recognizes that the older adult is at risk for surgical complications due to:
decreased renal function
