PROPHECY OR RN A V2 (2024-2025) QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
You review the patient's chart and discover that the patient has
an allergy to penicillin. What medication order should you be
worried about - <<<Answers>>>>Ancef
Upon arrival to PACU you notice your patient is having a
laryngospasm. What is the first action -
<<<Answers>>>>Apply positive pressure ventilation
After draping the left side of the patient, how should you
drape the right side - <<<Answers>>>>From the left side
open the drape over the patient
Shake the drape open as your assistant places the drape
Reach over the patient to place the drape
Walk around the operating room table
What is the safest location for sharps during a surgical
procedure - <<<Answers>>>>in knife holder/needle board on
back table
When prepping a patient for general surgery with
laparoscopy, in what order should you drape them? -
<<<Answers>>>>Lap sheet, sterile towels, impervious drape
impervious drape, sterile towel, lap sheet
sterile towel, impervious drape, lap sheet
, PROPHECY OR RN A V2 (2024-2025) QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
***impervious drape, lap sheet, sterile towel***wrong
What is the most important action for the circulator to do to
prevent post-orthopedic surgery infection -
<<<Answers>>>>place a no traffic sign of the door
In what order should you apply a sterile drape -
<<<Answers>>>>from sterile area to unsterile, draping
nearest first
You are taking a patient to PACU who just had a fractured
mandible repaired. What supply do you need to transport with
your patient - <<<Answers>>>>wire cutter
When should you and surgical team members perform a
surgical count for an open thoracotomy? -
<<<Answers>>>>Prior to skin incision, at the beginning of
closure of body cavity or first tissue layer, and during skin
closure
You are the scrub nurse on a case in which a vendor is
present. The vendor has a packaged product that they would
like to hand to the surgeon. What should you do? -
<<<Answers>>>>Ask the vendor to hand the product to the
circulating nurse
ANSWERS
You review the patient's chart and discover that the patient has
an allergy to penicillin. What medication order should you be
worried about - <<<Answers>>>>Ancef
Upon arrival to PACU you notice your patient is having a
laryngospasm. What is the first action -
<<<Answers>>>>Apply positive pressure ventilation
After draping the left side of the patient, how should you
drape the right side - <<<Answers>>>>From the left side
open the drape over the patient
Shake the drape open as your assistant places the drape
Reach over the patient to place the drape
Walk around the operating room table
What is the safest location for sharps during a surgical
procedure - <<<Answers>>>>in knife holder/needle board on
back table
When prepping a patient for general surgery with
laparoscopy, in what order should you drape them? -
<<<Answers>>>>Lap sheet, sterile towels, impervious drape
impervious drape, sterile towel, lap sheet
sterile towel, impervious drape, lap sheet
, PROPHECY OR RN A V2 (2024-2025) QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
***impervious drape, lap sheet, sterile towel***wrong
What is the most important action for the circulator to do to
prevent post-orthopedic surgery infection -
<<<Answers>>>>place a no traffic sign of the door
In what order should you apply a sterile drape -
<<<Answers>>>>from sterile area to unsterile, draping
nearest first
You are taking a patient to PACU who just had a fractured
mandible repaired. What supply do you need to transport with
your patient - <<<Answers>>>>wire cutter
When should you and surgical team members perform a
surgical count for an open thoracotomy? -
<<<Answers>>>>Prior to skin incision, at the beginning of
closure of body cavity or first tissue layer, and during skin
closure
You are the scrub nurse on a case in which a vendor is
present. The vendor has a packaged product that they would
like to hand to the surgeon. What should you do? -
<<<Answers>>>>Ask the vendor to hand the product to the
circulating nurse
