CAPA ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔D. Adenosine - ✔✔A post-appendectomy patient suddenly goes into
supraventricular tachycardia. Vital signs are BP= 125/75, HR 168, and RR= 16. The
nurse anticipates administering:
A. Lidocaine
B. Propanolol
C. Esmolol
D. Adenosine
✔✔A. Cocaine
Helps minimize post-op pain and intraop bleeding for sinus surgeries - ✔✔A patient
arrives in the PACU following an ethmoidectomy with a BP of 180/110. The nurse
suspects that the hypertension is due to intraoperative administration of:
A. Cocaine
B. Droperidol
C. Ondansetron
D. Desflurane
✔✔B. During the preoperative assessment - ✔✔The perianesthesia nurse recognizes
that the effective pain management of any patient with pain should begin:
A. Initially in the PACU
B. During the preoperative assessment
C. With pain intensity scales for verbal patients only
D. 30minutes prior to discharge from the hospital
✔✔B. Decrease anxiety to facilitate understanding of information - ✔✔The
perianesthesia nurse is aware that the primary goals of patient education are to:
, A. Get all paperwork completed
B. Decrease anxiety to facilitate understanding of information
C. Make sure all discharge instructions are distributed
D. Ensure proper understanding of facility and fee incurred
✔✔B. Encouraging the patient to sleep in semi-Fowler's position - ✔✔The discharge
plan for a morbidly obese patient who has had a ventral hernia repair includes:
A. Having an oversized commode delivered 2 days postoperatively
B. Encouraging the patient to sleep in semi-Fowler's position
C. Telling the patient to avoid showers for 10 days
D. Telling the patient not to use a binder if it is uncomfortable
✔✔D. The size of the needle used for the puncture - ✔✔A patient is complaining of a
postural puncture headache, postoperatively. The perianesthesia nurse is aware that
this occurence is most frequently attributed to:
A. Elevating the head of the bed too soon
B. A previous post Dural puncture headache
C. Being NPO for a long period preoperatively
D. The size of the needle used for the puncture
✔✔A. Hypokalemia - ✔✔The perianesthesia nurse is aware that a patient routinely
taking a thiazides diuretic is at increased risk for:
A. Hypokalemia
B. Hyperkalemia
C. Hypocalcemia
D. Hypercalcemia
✔✔B. Be provided a separate negative-pressure isolation room in PACU - ✔✔Post
surgical patients with active tuberculosis should:
A. Remain in the OR under the care of the circulating nurse
B. Be provided a separate negative-pressure isolation room in PACU
C. Be provided an appropriately sized particulate mask
D. Be recovered in an isolation room in the nursing unit
✔✔B. Moral dilemma - ✔✔A patient arrives in am ambulatory surgery facility for elective
abortion. The perianesthesia nurse not supporting this practice is faced with a/an:
A. Ethical dilemma
B. Moral dilemma
C. Moral obligation
D. Ethical reflection
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔D. Adenosine - ✔✔A post-appendectomy patient suddenly goes into
supraventricular tachycardia. Vital signs are BP= 125/75, HR 168, and RR= 16. The
nurse anticipates administering:
A. Lidocaine
B. Propanolol
C. Esmolol
D. Adenosine
✔✔A. Cocaine
Helps minimize post-op pain and intraop bleeding for sinus surgeries - ✔✔A patient
arrives in the PACU following an ethmoidectomy with a BP of 180/110. The nurse
suspects that the hypertension is due to intraoperative administration of:
A. Cocaine
B. Droperidol
C. Ondansetron
D. Desflurane
✔✔B. During the preoperative assessment - ✔✔The perianesthesia nurse recognizes
that the effective pain management of any patient with pain should begin:
A. Initially in the PACU
B. During the preoperative assessment
C. With pain intensity scales for verbal patients only
D. 30minutes prior to discharge from the hospital
✔✔B. Decrease anxiety to facilitate understanding of information - ✔✔The
perianesthesia nurse is aware that the primary goals of patient education are to:
, A. Get all paperwork completed
B. Decrease anxiety to facilitate understanding of information
C. Make sure all discharge instructions are distributed
D. Ensure proper understanding of facility and fee incurred
✔✔B. Encouraging the patient to sleep in semi-Fowler's position - ✔✔The discharge
plan for a morbidly obese patient who has had a ventral hernia repair includes:
A. Having an oversized commode delivered 2 days postoperatively
B. Encouraging the patient to sleep in semi-Fowler's position
C. Telling the patient to avoid showers for 10 days
D. Telling the patient not to use a binder if it is uncomfortable
✔✔D. The size of the needle used for the puncture - ✔✔A patient is complaining of a
postural puncture headache, postoperatively. The perianesthesia nurse is aware that
this occurence is most frequently attributed to:
A. Elevating the head of the bed too soon
B. A previous post Dural puncture headache
C. Being NPO for a long period preoperatively
D. The size of the needle used for the puncture
✔✔A. Hypokalemia - ✔✔The perianesthesia nurse is aware that a patient routinely
taking a thiazides diuretic is at increased risk for:
A. Hypokalemia
B. Hyperkalemia
C. Hypocalcemia
D. Hypercalcemia
✔✔B. Be provided a separate negative-pressure isolation room in PACU - ✔✔Post
surgical patients with active tuberculosis should:
A. Remain in the OR under the care of the circulating nurse
B. Be provided a separate negative-pressure isolation room in PACU
C. Be provided an appropriately sized particulate mask
D. Be recovered in an isolation room in the nursing unit
✔✔B. Moral dilemma - ✔✔A patient arrives in am ambulatory surgery facility for elective
abortion. The perianesthesia nurse not supporting this practice is faced with a/an:
A. Ethical dilemma
B. Moral dilemma
C. Moral obligation
D. Ethical reflection
