Client Having Surgery:Perioperative - Lippincotts ---Incomplete Final Practice Test 2024.

Client Having Surgery:Perioperative - Lippincotts ---Incomplete Final Practice Test 2024. 2. The client has a latex allergy. What should the nurse teach the client to do before having sur¬gery at a free-standing surgery center? Select all that apply. 1. Determine that there will be a latex-safe envi-ronment for surgery. 2. Report symptoms experienced with the latex allergy (e.g., rhinitis, conjunctivitis, flushing). 3. Notify the health care providers at the surgery center. 4. Wear a stainless steel medical alert bracelet into the surgical suite. 5. Ask to have the surgery at a hospital. - CORRECT ANSWER 1, 2, 3. Treatment and diagnostic evaluation must be done in a latex-safe environment. Signs/ symptoms may be mild to anaphylaxis. Clients with latex allergy are advised to notify their health care providers and to wear a medical ID; however, all metal and jewelry must be removed prior to sur¬gery as they could conduct an electrical current. The surgery can be safely performed at a free¬standing surgery center as long as latex precautions are observed. 7. The client tells the preoperative nurse that she cannot hear without her hearing aid and asks to wear it to surgery and recovery. What is the nurse's best response? 1. Explain to the client that it is policy not to take personal items to surgery because they may be lost or broken. 2. Tell the client that she will bring the hearing aid to the postanesthesia care unit so that she can have it as soon as she wakes up. 3. Explain to the client that she will have a pre-medication that will make her sleepy before she goes to surgery and she won't need to hear. 4. Call the surgery unit to explain the client's concern and ask if she can wear her hearing aid to surgery. - CORRECT ANSWER 7. 4. When a client has a concern, it is impor¬tant to decrease her stress as much as possible. The nurse should call the operating room and inform the intraoperative nurse. A special container with correct identification can be prepared so that when the client is anesthetized and her hearing aid is removed, it will not be lost or broken. It is usual policy not to send personal belongings to surgery because they are easily broken or lost in the transfer of an anesthetized client with higher