NURS 309 Quiz 1 Preoperative Patients
Questions With Complete Solutions
Which is the top priority for nurses during the preoperative period?
A. Patient teaching
B. Patient diagnostic testing
C. Patient safety
D. Patient care documentation - correct Answers ✔✔ -C. Patient
safety
During the preoperative period, a patient receives surgery on the wrong
extremity. To which agency must this occurrence be reported?
A. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
B. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
C. The Joint Commission (TJC)
D. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) - correct Answers
✔✔ -B. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Which statement best describes the preoperative period? SATA
A. It begins when the patient makes the appointment with the surgeon to
discuss the need for surgery
B. It ends at the time of transfer to the surgical suite
C. It is a time during which the patient's need for surgery is established
D. It begins when the patient is scheduled for surgery
E. It is a time during which the patient receives testing and education
related to impending surgery
F. It is a time when patients families receive discharge
instructions - correct Answers ✔✔ -B. It ends at the time of
transfer to the surgical suite
D. It begins when the patient is scheduled for surgery
E. It is a time during which the patient receives testing and education
related to impending surgery
Which are the focus areas for the Surgical Care Improvement Project
(SCIP)? SATA
A. Prevention of infection
B. Prevention of respiratory complications
C. Prevention of serious cardiac events
, D. Prevention of venous thromboembolism
E. Prevention of acute kidney injury
F. Maintenance of normothermia - correct Answers ✔✔ -A.
Prevention of infection
C. Prevention of serious cardiac events
D. Prevention of venous thromboembolism
F. Maintenance of normothermia
A female patient is having a biopsy of a nodule found in the right breast.
Which classification identifies this surgery?
A. Urgent
B. Minor
C. Cosmetic
D. Diagnostic - correct Answers ✔✔ -D. Diagnostic
A patient who can barely ambulate with a walker at home is having a left
total knee replacement. What is the most appropriate category for this
surgery?
A. Urgent
B. Restorative
C. Simple
D. Palliative - correct Answers ✔✔ -B. Restorative
A colostomy is scheduled to be done on a patient with Crohn's disease.
What is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Palliative
B. Minor
C. Restorative
D. Curative - correct Answers ✔✔ -A. Palliative
A male patient is having revision of a scar on his forehead from a third-
degree burn. What is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Major
B. Restorative
C. Cosmetic
D. Curative - correct Answers ✔✔ -C. Cosmetic
An appendectomy is being performed on a patient with appendicitis. What
is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Curative
B. Diagnostic
C. Urgent
D. Radical - correct Answers ✔✔ -A. Curative
Questions With Complete Solutions
Which is the top priority for nurses during the preoperative period?
A. Patient teaching
B. Patient diagnostic testing
C. Patient safety
D. Patient care documentation - correct Answers ✔✔ -C. Patient
safety
During the preoperative period, a patient receives surgery on the wrong
extremity. To which agency must this occurrence be reported?
A. Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
B. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
C. The Joint Commission (TJC)
D. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) - correct Answers
✔✔ -B. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Which statement best describes the preoperative period? SATA
A. It begins when the patient makes the appointment with the surgeon to
discuss the need for surgery
B. It ends at the time of transfer to the surgical suite
C. It is a time during which the patient's need for surgery is established
D. It begins when the patient is scheduled for surgery
E. It is a time during which the patient receives testing and education
related to impending surgery
F. It is a time when patients families receive discharge
instructions - correct Answers ✔✔ -B. It ends at the time of
transfer to the surgical suite
D. It begins when the patient is scheduled for surgery
E. It is a time during which the patient receives testing and education
related to impending surgery
Which are the focus areas for the Surgical Care Improvement Project
(SCIP)? SATA
A. Prevention of infection
B. Prevention of respiratory complications
C. Prevention of serious cardiac events
, D. Prevention of venous thromboembolism
E. Prevention of acute kidney injury
F. Maintenance of normothermia - correct Answers ✔✔ -A.
Prevention of infection
C. Prevention of serious cardiac events
D. Prevention of venous thromboembolism
F. Maintenance of normothermia
A female patient is having a biopsy of a nodule found in the right breast.
Which classification identifies this surgery?
A. Urgent
B. Minor
C. Cosmetic
D. Diagnostic - correct Answers ✔✔ -D. Diagnostic
A patient who can barely ambulate with a walker at home is having a left
total knee replacement. What is the most appropriate category for this
surgery?
A. Urgent
B. Restorative
C. Simple
D. Palliative - correct Answers ✔✔ -B. Restorative
A colostomy is scheduled to be done on a patient with Crohn's disease.
What is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Palliative
B. Minor
C. Restorative
D. Curative - correct Answers ✔✔ -A. Palliative
A male patient is having revision of a scar on his forehead from a third-
degree burn. What is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Major
B. Restorative
C. Cosmetic
D. Curative - correct Answers ✔✔ -C. Cosmetic
An appendectomy is being performed on a patient with appendicitis. What
is the correct classification for this surgery?
A. Curative
B. Diagnostic
C. Urgent
D. Radical - correct Answers ✔✔ -A. Curative
