AORN Periop 101 Final Exam: 2026/2027 LATEST
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• HUMIDITY RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR -✓✓ 20-60%
• TEMPURATURE RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR -✓✓ 68-75 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT
20-24 DEGREES CELSIUS
• THIS LOSES PLIABILITY IF DRIED OUT
OPEN OVER SMALL BASIN
SURGICAL GUT (PLAIN OR CHROMIC) AND COLLAGEN -✓✓ NATURAL
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
• MAXON
MONOCRYL
VICRYL
DEXON
PDS & PDS II
DO NOT SOAK OR DIP IN WATER (THIS CAUSES HYDROLYSIS AND
REDUCTION OF TENSILE STRENGTH) -✓✓ SYNTHETIC ABSORBABLE
SUTURE
• SILK
SURGICAL COTTON (WEAKEST; GAINS STRENGTH WHEN WET)
LINEN
,STAINLESS STEEL (USED FOR CLOSURE OF STERNUM, RETENTION
SUTURE, SECONDARY REPAIR, RESP TRACT, ORTHO,
NEUROSURGERY) -✓✓ NATURAL NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
• NYLON SUTURE
-MONOFILAMENT (ETHILON & DERMALON)
-COATED (SURGILON)
-UNCOATED (NEUROLON)
POLYESTER FIBER SUTURE
-COATED (TICRON, ETHIBOND, TEFLON)
-UNCOATED (MERSILENE & DACRON)
POLYPROPYLENE (PROLENE & SURGILENE)
POLYBUTESTER (NOVAFIL)
POLY ETHYLENE (DERMALENE) -✓✓ SYNTHETIC NONABSORBABLE
SUTURE
• -NO INFLAMMATION
-RESP, AILMENTARY, AND GU TRACTS NOT ENTERED
-EX. EYE SURGERY, HERNIA REPAIRS, BREAST SURGERY,
NONTRAUMATIC NEURO & ORTHO SURGERY, CARDIAC, OR
PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY -✓✓ CLASS I-CLEAN WOUNDS
• -RESP, AILMENTARY, OR GU WOUNDS ENTERED UNDER
CONTROLLED CONDITIONS AND WITHOUT CONTAMINATION OF
SURROUNDING TISSUE
, -NO EVIDENCE OF INFECTION OR MAJOR BREAK IN ASEPTIC
TECHNIQUE
-EX. D&C, TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY, GASTRECTOMY, CHOLE WITHOUT
SPILLAGE, ELECTIVE APPY, CYSTOSCOPY, TURP ON PT W/ NEGATIVE
URINE CULTURES, SIGMOID COLON RESECTION -✓✓ CLASS II-CLEAN
CONTAMINATED
• -OPEN, FRESH, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS
-MAJOR BREAK IN STERILE TECHNIQUE
-GROSS SPILLAGE FROM GI TRACT
-INCISIONS WITH ACUTE NONPURULENT INFLAMMATION
-EX. LAPAROTOMY W/ SIGNIFICANT SPILLAGE, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS,
ACUTE APPENDICITIS OR CHOLECYSTITIS, COMPOUND FRACTURES -
✓✓ CLASS III-CONTAMINATED WOUNDS
• -OLD, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS WITH DEVITALIZED TISSUE,
PERFORATED VISCERA, DELAYED PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE
-EX. INCISION AND DRAINAGE, TOTAL EVISCERATION, PERFORATED
VISCERA -✓✓ CLASS IV-DIRTY WOUNDS
• PURPOSE OF STANDARDIZED NURSING LANGUAGE SUCH AS PNDS -
✓✓ MAINTAIN PT SAFETY, INFECTION CONTROL, AND MANAGEMENT
OF SUPPLY COST
PLAN OF CARE
HELPS TO
-PLAN NURSING INTERVENTIONS
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
• HUMIDITY RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR -✓✓ 20-60%
• TEMPURATURE RANGE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL OR -✓✓ 68-75 DEGREES
FAHRENHEIT
20-24 DEGREES CELSIUS
• THIS LOSES PLIABILITY IF DRIED OUT
OPEN OVER SMALL BASIN
SURGICAL GUT (PLAIN OR CHROMIC) AND COLLAGEN -✓✓ NATURAL
ABSORBABLE SUTURE
• MAXON
MONOCRYL
VICRYL
DEXON
PDS & PDS II
DO NOT SOAK OR DIP IN WATER (THIS CAUSES HYDROLYSIS AND
REDUCTION OF TENSILE STRENGTH) -✓✓ SYNTHETIC ABSORBABLE
SUTURE
• SILK
SURGICAL COTTON (WEAKEST; GAINS STRENGTH WHEN WET)
LINEN
,STAINLESS STEEL (USED FOR CLOSURE OF STERNUM, RETENTION
SUTURE, SECONDARY REPAIR, RESP TRACT, ORTHO,
NEUROSURGERY) -✓✓ NATURAL NONABSORBABLE SUTURE
• NYLON SUTURE
-MONOFILAMENT (ETHILON & DERMALON)
-COATED (SURGILON)
-UNCOATED (NEUROLON)
POLYESTER FIBER SUTURE
-COATED (TICRON, ETHIBOND, TEFLON)
-UNCOATED (MERSILENE & DACRON)
POLYPROPYLENE (PROLENE & SURGILENE)
POLYBUTESTER (NOVAFIL)
POLY ETHYLENE (DERMALENE) -✓✓ SYNTHETIC NONABSORBABLE
SUTURE
• -NO INFLAMMATION
-RESP, AILMENTARY, AND GU TRACTS NOT ENTERED
-EX. EYE SURGERY, HERNIA REPAIRS, BREAST SURGERY,
NONTRAUMATIC NEURO & ORTHO SURGERY, CARDIAC, OR
PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SURGERY -✓✓ CLASS I-CLEAN WOUNDS
• -RESP, AILMENTARY, OR GU WOUNDS ENTERED UNDER
CONTROLLED CONDITIONS AND WITHOUT CONTAMINATION OF
SURROUNDING TISSUE
, -NO EVIDENCE OF INFECTION OR MAJOR BREAK IN ASEPTIC
TECHNIQUE
-EX. D&C, TOTAL HYSTERECTOMY, GASTRECTOMY, CHOLE WITHOUT
SPILLAGE, ELECTIVE APPY, CYSTOSCOPY, TURP ON PT W/ NEGATIVE
URINE CULTURES, SIGMOID COLON RESECTION -✓✓ CLASS II-CLEAN
CONTAMINATED
• -OPEN, FRESH, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS
-MAJOR BREAK IN STERILE TECHNIQUE
-GROSS SPILLAGE FROM GI TRACT
-INCISIONS WITH ACUTE NONPURULENT INFLAMMATION
-EX. LAPAROTOMY W/ SIGNIFICANT SPILLAGE, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS,
ACUTE APPENDICITIS OR CHOLECYSTITIS, COMPOUND FRACTURES -
✓✓ CLASS III-CONTAMINATED WOUNDS
• -OLD, TRAUMATIC WOUNDS WITH DEVITALIZED TISSUE,
PERFORATED VISCERA, DELAYED PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE
-EX. INCISION AND DRAINAGE, TOTAL EVISCERATION, PERFORATED
VISCERA -✓✓ CLASS IV-DIRTY WOUNDS
• PURPOSE OF STANDARDIZED NURSING LANGUAGE SUCH AS PNDS -
✓✓ MAINTAIN PT SAFETY, INFECTION CONTROL, AND MANAGEMENT
OF SUPPLY COST
PLAN OF CARE
HELPS TO
-PLAN NURSING INTERVENTIONS
