Define Health - Answers a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity
Define Illness - Answers a state in which a person's physical, emotional, intellectual, social,
developmental, or spiritual functioning is diminished or impaired
Define health continuum - Answers a sliding scale of your overall state of health
Define Disease - Answers a medical condition that causes distress for a person in the form of
its symptoms
Define health promotion - Answers helps individuals maintain or enhance their resent health;
includes activities such as routine exercise and good nutrition
Define primary prevention - Answers True prevention that lowers the chances that a disease will
develop
Health education, good nutrition based developmental stage, provision of adequate housing,
recreation and working conditions, marriage counseling, sex education, and genetic screening.
Define Secondary prevention - Answers focuses on those who have health problems or illnesses
and are at risk or developing complications or worsening conditions
Prevention of spreading the disease
Define tertiary prevention - Answers occurs when a defect or disability is permanent or
irreversible
activities are directed at preventing complication and deterioration
What are the 5 stages of Illness - Answers Stage 1: Incubation (pathogens enter body and
multiply)
Stage 2: prodromal (experience non-specific symptoms)
Stage 3: Illness (characteristic symptoms)
Stage 4: decline (body fights off illnesss)
Stage 5: convalescence (recovery and repair)
What is the purpose of the nurse in terms of consent? - Answers Nurse witness the signature
and reinforce teaching
Can only reinforce information
, if the pt or POA states that they do not understand the procedure the doctor will have to come
back in and clarify
True or False: The student nurse cannot witness informed consent - Answers True
What is the doctors role with consent - Answers gives the informed consent (makes patient or
caregiver aware of what procedure the risk and benefits)
What are meds given during pre-op - Answers Spinal anesthetics - lidocaine
Benzodiazepines - decreases anxiety, diazepam
Anticholinergics - decrease oral secretions, glycopyrrolate
NSAIDS - treat mild/moderate pain, tordol
Serotonin receptor antagonist - suppress nausea, zofran
Barbiturates - produce anesthesia, thiopental sodium
General anesthetics - produce lack of responsiveness
Antibiotics - 30 min before surgical incision to prevent infection, prophylactic (ancef)
Antacids - decrease gastric acid, pepcid or protonix
What are some pre-op labs that should be taken? - Answers Prothrombin
(PT) - time it takes PLASMA to clot, if they are on anticoagulants. 11-12.5 secs
(INR) - time it takes plasma to clot. coumadin (warfarin). 0.76-1.27 or 2.0-3.0 anticoagulation
therapy
Partial thromboplastin time (PTT) - time it takes blood clots to form, clotting factors - heparin.
25 - 35 sec
What are some intra-op considerations - Answers pt positing, airway, circulation, breathing,
vitals
What is the purpose of the time out? - Answers So all members of the OR team participate in the
positive identification of the client, identify the correct site, and identify the planned procedure.
What are some common post-op complications and how can we help minimize? - Answers
pneumonia - incentive spirometer (10/hr)
DVT - compressors on legs