AORN PERIOP 101 ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔A perioperative RN who delegates a nursing task to a nursing assistant - ✔✔should
have access to information related to the nursing assistant's competence to perform the
task
✔✔A nurse manager is interviewing an experienced perioperative RN and is interested
in how the RN makes patient care decisions. Select the statement that could help the
nurse manager elicit information about the RN's critical thinking skills for patient care -
✔✔Tell me what actions you took when you were caring for a patient and you
anticipated a problem with that patient
✔✔Where should the periop RN start when performing the preoperative skin prep for an
abdominal procedure? - ✔✔At the incision site, moving toward the periphery
✔✔To provide optimal patient care for a scheduled moderate sedation, the RN manager
should assign one periop RN to circulate and - ✔✔a second RN to manage the patient
receiving moderate sedation
✔✔Which anesthetic agents can trigger MH crisis? - ✔✔Desflurane and succinycholine
✔✔What lab value can assist the periop RN in determining a surgical patient's
nutritional status for effective wound healing? - ✔✔Albumin
✔✔Before the patient enters MRI zones ______, the periop RN should ensure that the
patient's MRI safety screening has been completed. - ✔✔*NOT* II and III
✔✔The periop RN notices the surgeon talking on a cell phone in the OR. Cell phones in
the OR should be - ✔✔cleaned according to MFU before being brought into the periop
setting
, ✔✔Radiation health care workers must be monitored annually for exposure to radiation.
Exposure must be limited to a total effective dose equivalent not exceeding - ✔✔5 rem
✔✔If a patient experiences a cardiac arrest in a hybrid OR when the MRI scanner is in
use, the first action of the periop RN should do to assist the team is - ✔✔begin basic
CPR and retract the MRI scanner back into the holding bay
✔✔A patient with known TB who is scheduled for surgery is waiting. What instructions
should the periop RN give to the transporter? - ✔✔Place a mask on the patient before
transporting and bring the patient directly into the OR suite
✔✔Which biological indicator should be used for a steam sterilizer's routine load release
and routine sterilizer efficacy monitoring? - ✔✔Geobacillus stearothermophilus
✔✔the level of analgesia at which the pt's pain and anxiety is relieved enough to
tolerate the procedure and at which the pt maintains adequate, spontaneous ventilation
and can respond appropriately to verbal commands or tactile stimulation is defined as -
✔✔*NOT* minimal sedation
✔✔An example of using engineering controls to prevent sharps injuries to perioperative
team members is - ✔✔*NOT* verbally notifying the surgeon when a sharp is in the
neutral zone
✔✔The HVAC, surgical attire, and traffic pattern requirements of the surgical suite are
designed to be more stringent as personnel move from - ✔✔unrestricted to restricted
areas
✔✔The telephone in the OR is ringing at the same time the surgeon is describing to the
RN circulator the site and identity of a tissue specimen removed from a patient who has
been diagnosed with melanoma. Which action should a periop RN take at this time? -
✔✔Continue to listen to the surgeon's instructions about the tissue specimen
✔✔During an endoscopic procedure with use of CO2 as the distention media, end tidal
CO2 monitoring is used to detect an onset of - ✔✔hypercarbia
✔✔A two-room design for endoscopy processing should provide - ✔✔*NOT*
multidirectional access to the decon area, setup areas, and storage areas
✔✔When directed by the MFU of a mechanical processor, which flexible endoscope
reprocessing step can be eliminated? - ✔✔manual cleaning
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✔✔A perioperative RN who delegates a nursing task to a nursing assistant - ✔✔should
have access to information related to the nursing assistant's competence to perform the
task
✔✔A nurse manager is interviewing an experienced perioperative RN and is interested
in how the RN makes patient care decisions. Select the statement that could help the
nurse manager elicit information about the RN's critical thinking skills for patient care -
✔✔Tell me what actions you took when you were caring for a patient and you
anticipated a problem with that patient
✔✔Where should the periop RN start when performing the preoperative skin prep for an
abdominal procedure? - ✔✔At the incision site, moving toward the periphery
✔✔To provide optimal patient care for a scheduled moderate sedation, the RN manager
should assign one periop RN to circulate and - ✔✔a second RN to manage the patient
receiving moderate sedation
✔✔Which anesthetic agents can trigger MH crisis? - ✔✔Desflurane and succinycholine
✔✔What lab value can assist the periop RN in determining a surgical patient's
nutritional status for effective wound healing? - ✔✔Albumin
✔✔Before the patient enters MRI zones ______, the periop RN should ensure that the
patient's MRI safety screening has been completed. - ✔✔*NOT* II and III
✔✔The periop RN notices the surgeon talking on a cell phone in the OR. Cell phones in
the OR should be - ✔✔cleaned according to MFU before being brought into the periop
setting
, ✔✔Radiation health care workers must be monitored annually for exposure to radiation.
Exposure must be limited to a total effective dose equivalent not exceeding - ✔✔5 rem
✔✔If a patient experiences a cardiac arrest in a hybrid OR when the MRI scanner is in
use, the first action of the periop RN should do to assist the team is - ✔✔begin basic
CPR and retract the MRI scanner back into the holding bay
✔✔A patient with known TB who is scheduled for surgery is waiting. What instructions
should the periop RN give to the transporter? - ✔✔Place a mask on the patient before
transporting and bring the patient directly into the OR suite
✔✔Which biological indicator should be used for a steam sterilizer's routine load release
and routine sterilizer efficacy monitoring? - ✔✔Geobacillus stearothermophilus
✔✔the level of analgesia at which the pt's pain and anxiety is relieved enough to
tolerate the procedure and at which the pt maintains adequate, spontaneous ventilation
and can respond appropriately to verbal commands or tactile stimulation is defined as -
✔✔*NOT* minimal sedation
✔✔An example of using engineering controls to prevent sharps injuries to perioperative
team members is - ✔✔*NOT* verbally notifying the surgeon when a sharp is in the
neutral zone
✔✔The HVAC, surgical attire, and traffic pattern requirements of the surgical suite are
designed to be more stringent as personnel move from - ✔✔unrestricted to restricted
areas
✔✔The telephone in the OR is ringing at the same time the surgeon is describing to the
RN circulator the site and identity of a tissue specimen removed from a patient who has
been diagnosed with melanoma. Which action should a periop RN take at this time? -
✔✔Continue to listen to the surgeon's instructions about the tissue specimen
✔✔During an endoscopic procedure with use of CO2 as the distention media, end tidal
CO2 monitoring is used to detect an onset of - ✔✔hypercarbia
✔✔A two-room design for endoscopy processing should provide - ✔✔*NOT*
multidirectional access to the decon area, setup areas, and storage areas
✔✔When directed by the MFU of a mechanical processor, which flexible endoscope
reprocessing step can be eliminated? - ✔✔manual cleaning
