Medical-Surgical Nursing Exam #1
(Latest 2025-2026 Edition) 100% Verified Q&A + Answer
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Key Solutions
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Question 1
What Are the 2017 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals?
Correct Answer
- Identify patients correctly
- Improve staff communication
- Use medicines safely
- Use alarms safely
- Identify patient safety risks
- Prevent Infection
- Prevent mistakes in surgery
Question 2
What Are the Purposes of Surgery?
Correct Answer
- Diagnosis (Yes or No)
- Exploration (Find Problem)
- Cure (Remove/Fix)
- Prevention (Early Stages)
- Palliation (Dying, Hospice, Comfort, No Cure)
- Cosmetic Improvement (Burns, Mastectomy, Reconstruction)
Question 3
What Are the Three Surgical Phases?
Correct Answer
1.) Preoperative (Until the OR)
2.) Intraoperative (Inside OR)
3.) Postoperative (PACU)
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, Question 4
What is Elective Surgery?
Correct Answer
A planned surgery
Ex: Knee replacement
Question 5
What is An Emergency Surgery?
Correct Answer
Unplanned
Ex: Burst appendix
Question 6
Inpatient vs. Outpatient
Correct Answer
Inpatient
- Same day admission
Outpatient (Ambulatory)
- Leave hospital when recovered and awake
Question 7
Nursing Management of the Surgical Client
Correct Answer
- Knowledge of the nature of the disorder
- Determine the client's response to the stress of surgery
- Assess the results of preoperative diagnostic tests (Look at lab tests)
What does the patient know, why are they here
Question 8
Preoperative:
Client Interview
Correct Answer
1.) Purpose: Where is the patient at mentally, most anxious, take vitals after a little while, reassurance
2.) Check documented information prior to the interview (Avoids repetition; see how nervous)
3.) Occurs in advance or on day of surgery
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(Latest 2025-2026 Edition) 100% Verified Q&A + Answer
45+
Key Solutions
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Question 1
What Are the 2017 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals?
Correct Answer
- Identify patients correctly
- Improve staff communication
- Use medicines safely
- Use alarms safely
- Identify patient safety risks
- Prevent Infection
- Prevent mistakes in surgery
Question 2
What Are the Purposes of Surgery?
Correct Answer
- Diagnosis (Yes or No)
- Exploration (Find Problem)
- Cure (Remove/Fix)
- Prevention (Early Stages)
- Palliation (Dying, Hospice, Comfort, No Cure)
- Cosmetic Improvement (Burns, Mastectomy, Reconstruction)
Question 3
What Are the Three Surgical Phases?
Correct Answer
1.) Preoperative (Until the OR)
2.) Intraoperative (Inside OR)
3.) Postoperative (PACU)
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, Question 4
What is Elective Surgery?
Correct Answer
A planned surgery
Ex: Knee replacement
Question 5
What is An Emergency Surgery?
Correct Answer
Unplanned
Ex: Burst appendix
Question 6
Inpatient vs. Outpatient
Correct Answer
Inpatient
- Same day admission
Outpatient (Ambulatory)
- Leave hospital when recovered and awake
Question 7
Nursing Management of the Surgical Client
Correct Answer
- Knowledge of the nature of the disorder
- Determine the client's response to the stress of surgery
- Assess the results of preoperative diagnostic tests (Look at lab tests)
What does the patient know, why are they here
Question 8
Preoperative:
Client Interview
Correct Answer
1.) Purpose: Where is the patient at mentally, most anxious, take vitals after a little while, reassurance
2.) Check documented information prior to the interview (Avoids repetition; see how nervous)
3.) Occurs in advance or on day of surgery
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