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Prepare for the AORN Periop 101 Final Exam with a comprehensive study guide designed to support focused perioperative nursing review. This resource helps learners organize important concepts related to surgical nursing, patient safety, sterile technique, operating room practices, and perioperative patient care. Review key areas such as surgical asepsis, infection prevention, patient positioning, surgical safety, instrumentation, specimen handling, anesthesia considerations, perioperative assessment, documentation, and operating room procedures. Practice-style questions can help reinforce important concepts, strengthen recall, and identify topics that may require additional review before the final exam. Use this AORN Periop 101 Final Exam Study Guide alongside current AORN resources, course materials, instructor guidance, textbooks, and other approved educational references. It is intended for educational review and exam preparation.

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What is a Blunt needle point?
1.This type of needle point is what you
would expect to be needed for suturing
friable tissue such as the liver.

What are disposable stapler sets?
2.These particular wound closing items are
available in a wide variety of instrument
sizes.

What is cc?
3.Give one example from TJC list of Do-Not-
Use Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Symbols.


What is Clean contaminated?
5.The surgical wound classification for a
total abdominal hysterectomy.

What is a Jackson-Pratt?
4.Following an excisional breast biopsy, the
circulating nurse would anticipate the need
to have available this type of drain

What is Lithotomy Position?
6.This position can cause physiological
effects of circulatory and respiratory
compromise due to pressure on the
abdomen.

What is to reduce the patient's risk of intraoperative skin injury.
7.To protect sensitive areas of the skin with
appropriate padding is a recommended
practice for this:

What is personal protective equipment?
8.An environmental sanitation practice that
is required to limit the transmission of
microorganisms to personnel when handling
body fluid spills

What is capacitive coupling?
9.It is recommended to inspect the active
electrode for insulation defects to prevent
this from occurring during MIS

c. use additional precautions as appropriate based on unique patient considerations


10. According to AORN RP for positioning
the patient, the perioperative nurse should:
What is...
a. Use a consistent method of procedure-
specific position for each patient
b. Rely on the surgeon's and anesthesia
provider's assessments to guide positioning
c. use additional precautions as appropriate
based on unique patient considerations
d. Depend on the patient's natural defense
mechanisms to indicate the need for
positioning alterations




What is skin clips?
11.The disadvantage of using this type of
wound closure is because they often cause
more scarring than other skin closure
methods.

What is Self-determination?
12.An automatic intraoperative suspension
of a do-not-resuscitate decision violates a
patient's ethical right to...

What is situational-based error?
13. This type of human factor error is
responsible when a perioperative nurse is
trying to attend to several tasks at once

What is aseptic technique?
14.Restricting pathogenic organisms from
the patient, environment, equipment, and
supplies is the definition of....

What are draping materials?
The most important consideration when
selecting these materials is to prevent risk of
contaminating patients with endogenous and
exogenous microorganisms; and risk of
exposing healthcare workers to patient's
blood and body fluids




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What is Phase II?
16.Patient and caregiver education for
continuing post-op care at home is the
primary focus of this Phase of post
anesthesia care.

What are Healthcare organizations?
17.According to the Institute of medicine
recommendations for improving patient
safety, this organization has the greatest
potential impact to make changes on
improving pt safety


b. The scrub gown should be fastened in the back before donning gloves

18. This statement about gloving technique
is true
What is...
a. When gloving another person, always
glove the left hand first.
b. The scrub gown should be fastened in the
back before donning gloves
c. Open glove technique is used for initial
donning of the sterile gown and gloves.
d. Closed glove technique is used to glove
the surgeon or assistant.



What is fuel source?
19. Draping material is this source in the fire
triangle? (fuel, ignition, oxidizer)

20. The safest way to pass a cutting What is place it in a designated neutral zone with a verbal cue
instrument to a surgeon is:

What is Trendelenberg?
21. To place a patient safely in this particular
position the knees are over the break in the
procedure bed to allow for knee flexion.

2. to permit aseptic delivery of contents to the sterile field


22. A packaging system for items
undergoing sterilization should possess this
characteristic:
What is....
1. Made of only disposable materials
2. to permit aseptic delivery of contents to
the sterile field
3. Maintain sterility of the items for a
specified length of time.
4. Compatible with all sterilization processes




What is a Latex-safe cart?
23. Silicone catheters should be stocked on
this particular cart in the surgical suite.

What is handling natural absorbable sutures (plain, chromic)
24. Open this package carefully over a small
basin to prevent splashing of the packaging
solution.

What is a laser safety officer?
25. An example of administrative controls to
assure safe use of lasers, is the appointment
of a person in this role:

c. act according to the terms of agreement establishing the nature of the relationship
between the pt and the nurse

26. This statement about the perioperative
nurse's role in bioethical decision making is
most justifiable. The perioperative nurse
should... WHAT IS...
a. Try to avoid involvement in ethical
dilemmas unless they are personally
engaged in a situation.
b. Refer all ethical dilemmas to the
institution's ethics committee to decide the
best course of action.
c. act according to the terms of agreement
establishing the nature of the relationship
between the pt and the nurse
d. Defer to surgeons judgment when there is
disagreement about the right course of
action.




What is microfibrillar collagen
27. A precaution that should be taken when
using this hemostatic agent intraoperatively
is to avoid using it with an autologous blood
salvage unit (cell saver).


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