CNOR MAIN EXAM TEST 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The minimum number of personnel that should be available to move an
anesthesized patient from a supine-to-prone position - ✔✔four
✔✔Items that come in contact with non-intact skin or mucous members according to
Spaulding's Level of Sterility - ✔✔semicritical items
✔✔A long-acting local anesthesia agent used for regional block - ✔✔Marcaine
(bupivacaine)
✔✔An adverse reaction related to using water as a distention media - ✔✔Hemolysis
✔✔The purpose of using padded material under the pneumatic tourniquet - ✔✔Maintain
skin integrity
✔✔Clamp that is designed to hold bowel tissue and has opposing smooth blunt edges -
✔✔Babcock
✔✔Areas of the eye where retrobulbar block is administered to the patient by the
surgeon - ✔✔Globe
✔✔Most common injured body part reported by a nurse - ✔✔back injuries
✔✔Wound classification for vaginal hysterectomy - ✔✔Clean contaminated (class 11)
✔✔Immediate Use Steam Sterilization - ✔✔IUSS
✔✔Most effective method preoperative skin antisepsis - ✔✔Shower two times with 4%
chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) the evening before and morning of surgery
✔✔incision used for an open appendectomy - ✔✔Mcburney's
✔✔An open (compound) fracture to the left radius and ulna that occurred three hours
ago - ✔✔contaminated class 3
✔✔Most common cause of delayed wound healing - ✔✔SSI
✔✔Most common surgical incision made for hepatic resection - ✔✔right subcostal
✔✔Most postoperative complications occur... - ✔✔within 48 hours after surgery
, ✔✔Eyewash station must be located from the location of possible exposure - ✔✔10
seconds
✔✔the weight of sterile instrument trays including packaging containers - ✔✔25 pounds
✔✔Sets of standards for an optimal level of perioperative practice that are published
annually by AORN - ✔✔5
✔✔A chemical device inserted into a packed set that will change in response to the
time, temp, and steam penetration and demonstrates visually that parameters
necessary for sterilization have been met. - ✔✔Integrator
✔✔The shelf life of a sterile package kept in storage according to AORN - ✔✔event
related
✔✔Class 5 chemical integrating indicators should be used to monitor sterilizers used to
flash sterilization. How often should these class 5 devices be used? - ✔✔every load
✔✔Steam sterilizers should be monitored with BI every____ according to AORN -
✔✔weekly
✔✔The most resistant pathogen to chemical and physical decontamination method -
✔✔prion
✔✔exposure limit to nitrous oxide - ✔✔25ppm
✔✔Cefazolin should be given with caution in patients with an allergic response
to______ - ✔✔PCN
✔✔The first sign of systemic local anesthesia toxicity - ✔✔numbness around the mouth
✔✔the procedure with greatest risk for developing DVT - ✔✔total knee arthroscopy
✔✔An undesirable side effect of moderate sedation - ✔✔snoring
✔✔recommended inital IV dose of Naloxone (Narcan) in the event of opoid-induced
respiratory depression - ✔✔0.4mg
✔✔Anaphylaxis reaction, immediate symptoms - ✔✔Vasodilation, hypotension and
bronchial constriction
✔✔Trauma to the body that accounts for half of all trauma deaths - ✔✔Head
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔The minimum number of personnel that should be available to move an
anesthesized patient from a supine-to-prone position - ✔✔four
✔✔Items that come in contact with non-intact skin or mucous members according to
Spaulding's Level of Sterility - ✔✔semicritical items
✔✔A long-acting local anesthesia agent used for regional block - ✔✔Marcaine
(bupivacaine)
✔✔An adverse reaction related to using water as a distention media - ✔✔Hemolysis
✔✔The purpose of using padded material under the pneumatic tourniquet - ✔✔Maintain
skin integrity
✔✔Clamp that is designed to hold bowel tissue and has opposing smooth blunt edges -
✔✔Babcock
✔✔Areas of the eye where retrobulbar block is administered to the patient by the
surgeon - ✔✔Globe
✔✔Most common injured body part reported by a nurse - ✔✔back injuries
✔✔Wound classification for vaginal hysterectomy - ✔✔Clean contaminated (class 11)
✔✔Immediate Use Steam Sterilization - ✔✔IUSS
✔✔Most effective method preoperative skin antisepsis - ✔✔Shower two times with 4%
chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) the evening before and morning of surgery
✔✔incision used for an open appendectomy - ✔✔Mcburney's
✔✔An open (compound) fracture to the left radius and ulna that occurred three hours
ago - ✔✔contaminated class 3
✔✔Most common cause of delayed wound healing - ✔✔SSI
✔✔Most common surgical incision made for hepatic resection - ✔✔right subcostal
✔✔Most postoperative complications occur... - ✔✔within 48 hours after surgery
, ✔✔Eyewash station must be located from the location of possible exposure - ✔✔10
seconds
✔✔the weight of sterile instrument trays including packaging containers - ✔✔25 pounds
✔✔Sets of standards for an optimal level of perioperative practice that are published
annually by AORN - ✔✔5
✔✔A chemical device inserted into a packed set that will change in response to the
time, temp, and steam penetration and demonstrates visually that parameters
necessary for sterilization have been met. - ✔✔Integrator
✔✔The shelf life of a sterile package kept in storage according to AORN - ✔✔event
related
✔✔Class 5 chemical integrating indicators should be used to monitor sterilizers used to
flash sterilization. How often should these class 5 devices be used? - ✔✔every load
✔✔Steam sterilizers should be monitored with BI every____ according to AORN -
✔✔weekly
✔✔The most resistant pathogen to chemical and physical decontamination method -
✔✔prion
✔✔exposure limit to nitrous oxide - ✔✔25ppm
✔✔Cefazolin should be given with caution in patients with an allergic response
to______ - ✔✔PCN
✔✔The first sign of systemic local anesthesia toxicity - ✔✔numbness around the mouth
✔✔the procedure with greatest risk for developing DVT - ✔✔total knee arthroscopy
✔✔An undesirable side effect of moderate sedation - ✔✔snoring
✔✔recommended inital IV dose of Naloxone (Narcan) in the event of opoid-induced
respiratory depression - ✔✔0.4mg
✔✔Anaphylaxis reaction, immediate symptoms - ✔✔Vasodilation, hypotension and
bronchial constriction
✔✔Trauma to the body that accounts for half of all trauma deaths - ✔✔Head
