1.
Domain: Safety Needs
1. The nurse providing
conscious sedation to a
patient:
1. will not have duties that inter- Content Area: Protect patient from harm and
take preventive
fere with monitoring of the pa-measures related to the use of protective safety
tient. devices and equipment (including, but not limited
to, padded side rails,
2. may circulate as long as mon- safety straps, restraints)
itor alarms are set. fowler's position.
3. may administer 2. maintain blood pressure be-
propofol for short low 180 systolic.
procedures. 3. prevent fluid overload by lim-
4. may monitor ASA IV iting IV fluids in the elderly.
patients 4. maintain airway and adminis-
ter supplemental O2.
2. In caring for a patient
at risk for 3. A patient with type 2
noncardiogenic pul- diabetes mellitus is admitted
monary edema, the the day of surgery with a
perianes- thesia nurse glucose of 610
understands that the best
method for prevention is
to:
1. elevate head in high
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Reference: American Society of PeriAnesthesia
Nurses. Peri- anesthesia Nursing Standards,
Practice Recommendations, and Interpretive
Statements 2015 - 2017. ASPAN, Cherry Hill,
NJ, 2015. Pg 63.
1. DKA
Domain: Physiological Needs
Content Area: Stability of Endocrine System
mg/dl. The perianesthesia nurse Reference: Fleisher, L. and Roizen, M. Essence
of Anesthesia
is aware that the patient may be Practice, 3rd Ed. Elsevier Health Sciences,
December, 2011.
at risk for: Pg 122.
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