MSN 277 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

Surgery correct answer: ○ Sometimes surgery might be enough but there are limitations ○ Considered a local therapy ○ Diagnosis ○ Cure ■ Different surgeries to help cure Palliative correct answer: ■ Option for palliation ■ Max for quality of life and relieving symptoms for those with terminal disease like cancer ■ Ex. large tumor compressing nerve and have chronic name ● Palliative surgery is an option for that patient Prevention correct answer: ■ Removal of mole or anything that can cause harm later on Cosmetic improvement correct answer: Exploration correct answer: ■ Figure out what's going on and compare to what is normal, a lot of times in the chest and abdomen ■ Surgeon determines dx and could treat right there Nursing assessment of the preoperative patient (Subjective, Objective, Past health history, medication, allergies, illicit drugs) correct answer: ○ Subjective data ■ How the patient feels, abstract ■ Psychosocial ■ Anxiety ■ Fear ■ Hope ○ Objective data ■ Data values ● Blood pressure ■ Concrete evidence ○ Past health history ■ We must know what other chronic disorders they have, overweight, diabetes, restrictive lung disease, one kidney, big drinker, all of the past history ○ Medication ■ Asses the medications ■ A lot of different medications used to treat their conditions ■ Nausea, pain medicine ■ Sedatives and antibiotics and a risk for drug interactions ■ Over the counter meds, herbals and see the potential drug interactions ● Aspirin (increases risk for bleeding) ■ Assessing the patients and hoping that they are honest with us ○ Allergies