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AHN Ch 2 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
This is the area of medicine that addresses diseases,
conditions, and traumatic injuries that are difficult or
impossible to treat only with medicine. Answer: Surgery
What is surgery classified as? Answer: elective, urgent, or
emergent
What is elective surgery? Answer: Planned for correction of a
nonacute problem
What is an urgent surgery? Answer: required to keep
additional health problems from occurying
what is emergent surgery? Answer: performed immediately to
save the individuals life or to preserve the function of a body
part or system.
What are various purposes of performing surgery? Answer:
diagnostic, ablative, palliative, reconstructive, curative,
preventative, transplant, constructive, and cosmetic
what is perioperative? Answer: time period of a patient's
surgical procedure. It commonly includes ward admission,
anesthesia, surgery, and recovery
what is preoperative phase? Answer: before surgery
what is intraoperative phase? Answer: during surgery
what is postoperative phase? Answer: after surgery
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Delegation Considerations in Perioperative Nursing Answer:
Box 2.2
what does the body use to supply energy producing glucose to
its cells? Answer: carbohydrates, proteins, and fat
what do carbohydrates, proteins, and fat do? Answer:
carbohydrates and fats are the primary energy producers and
protein is essential to build and repaid body tissue
ABCDEF Answer: A - Allergy to medication, chemicals, and
other environmental products such as latex. All allergies are
reported to anesthesia and surgical personnel before the
beginning of surgery. Place an allergy band on the patient's
arm immediately.
B - Bleeding tendencies or the use of medications that deter
clotting, such as aspirin or products containing aspirin, heparin,
or warfarin sodium. Herbal medications may also increase
bleeding times or mask potential blood-related problems.
C - Cortisone or steroid use
D - Diabetes mellitus, a condition that not only requires strict
control of blood glucose levels but is also known to delay
wound healing
E - Emboli. Previous embolic events (such as lower leg blood
cloths) may recur because of prolonged immobility
F - Fighting ability. patients whose immune systems are
suppressed are at a much higher risk for development of
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postoperative infection and are less capable of fighting that
infection
what are some perceptions that need to be evaluated that
might influence a patients perioperative period Answer:
emotion, behavior, and support systems
what is polypharmacy? Answer: concurrent use of multiple
medications
what are benefits to patient teaching before surgery? Answer:
it reduces pts anxiety associated w/ fear of the unknown, the
amount of anesthesia needed, postsurgical pain, and
corticosteriod production
what is incentive spirometer (IS)? Answer: procedure in which
a device is used at the bedside at regular intervals to
encourage a patient to breathe deeply
what is atelectasis? Answer: collapse of lung tissue
what is thrombus? Answer: stationary blood clot
what is embolus? Answer: moving blood clot
what is infarct? Answer: dead tissue
What is anesthesia? Answer: absence of all sensation,
including pain
What is general anesthesia? Answer: produces amnesia,
analgesia, muscle paralysis, and sedation reversible.
- used for major surgery requiring extensive tissue
manipulation.
AHN Ch 2 Questions with Detailed
Verified Answers
This is the area of medicine that addresses diseases,
conditions, and traumatic injuries that are difficult or
impossible to treat only with medicine. Answer: Surgery
What is surgery classified as? Answer: elective, urgent, or
emergent
What is elective surgery? Answer: Planned for correction of a
nonacute problem
What is an urgent surgery? Answer: required to keep
additional health problems from occurying
what is emergent surgery? Answer: performed immediately to
save the individuals life or to preserve the function of a body
part or system.
What are various purposes of performing surgery? Answer:
diagnostic, ablative, palliative, reconstructive, curative,
preventative, transplant, constructive, and cosmetic
what is perioperative? Answer: time period of a patient's
surgical procedure. It commonly includes ward admission,
anesthesia, surgery, and recovery
what is preoperative phase? Answer: before surgery
what is intraoperative phase? Answer: during surgery
what is postoperative phase? Answer: after surgery
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Delegation Considerations in Perioperative Nursing Answer:
Box 2.2
what does the body use to supply energy producing glucose to
its cells? Answer: carbohydrates, proteins, and fat
what do carbohydrates, proteins, and fat do? Answer:
carbohydrates and fats are the primary energy producers and
protein is essential to build and repaid body tissue
ABCDEF Answer: A - Allergy to medication, chemicals, and
other environmental products such as latex. All allergies are
reported to anesthesia and surgical personnel before the
beginning of surgery. Place an allergy band on the patient's
arm immediately.
B - Bleeding tendencies or the use of medications that deter
clotting, such as aspirin or products containing aspirin, heparin,
or warfarin sodium. Herbal medications may also increase
bleeding times or mask potential blood-related problems.
C - Cortisone or steroid use
D - Diabetes mellitus, a condition that not only requires strict
control of blood glucose levels but is also known to delay
wound healing
E - Emboli. Previous embolic events (such as lower leg blood
cloths) may recur because of prolonged immobility
F - Fighting ability. patients whose immune systems are
suppressed are at a much higher risk for development of
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postoperative infection and are less capable of fighting that
infection
what are some perceptions that need to be evaluated that
might influence a patients perioperative period Answer:
emotion, behavior, and support systems
what is polypharmacy? Answer: concurrent use of multiple
medications
what are benefits to patient teaching before surgery? Answer:
it reduces pts anxiety associated w/ fear of the unknown, the
amount of anesthesia needed, postsurgical pain, and
corticosteriod production
what is incentive spirometer (IS)? Answer: procedure in which
a device is used at the bedside at regular intervals to
encourage a patient to breathe deeply
what is atelectasis? Answer: collapse of lung tissue
what is thrombus? Answer: stationary blood clot
what is embolus? Answer: moving blood clot
what is infarct? Answer: dead tissue
What is anesthesia? Answer: absence of all sensation,
including pain
What is general anesthesia? Answer: produces amnesia,
analgesia, muscle paralysis, and sedation reversible.
- used for major surgery requiring extensive tissue
manipulation.
