MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSING
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2025
Surgery - Answer A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of diseases, deformities, and
injuries through manual procedures called operations
Ectomy - Answer Excision or removal/cutting out or off (Ex. Appendectomy)
Lysis - Answer Destruction of/removal
Orraphy - Answer Repair or suture of
Oscopy - Answer Looking into
Ostomy - Answer Creation of opening to furnish an outlet (Ex. Colonostomy)
Plasty - Answer Repair of scar or tissue revision
Oma - Answer Tumer excision of a fibroma
Otomy - Answer Cut into - thoracotomy - cut into the ches cavity
Pexy - Answer Fixation, anchor into place
Perioperative period - Answer Encompasse a client's total surgical experience, including the
preoperative and postoperative phases
Perioperative nursing - Answer Activities performed by the professional nurses during the perioperative
perioid
, Preoperative phase - Answer Begins with the decision to perform surgery and ends with the client;s
transfer to the OR table
Intaoperative phase - Answer Begins with the client is recieved in the OR and ends with his admission to
the PARR or PACU
Postoperative period - Answer Begins with the client admitted to PARR and extends through follow up
home care or clinic evaluation
Anesthesiologist/Nursing Anesthetist - Answer Makes a preoperative assessment to plan the type of
anesthetic to be administered
Professuinal Registered OR Nurse - Answer Makes preoperative nursing assessment and documents the
intra-operative client care plan
Circulating nurse - Answer Manages the OR and protects the safety and health needs of the client by
monitoring the conditions in the OR
Anesthesiologist - Answer Part of the perioperative team that check patient, if patient is able to have
surgery and what type of anesthesia to give
Cardiologist - Answer If anesthesiologist is doubting on what type of anesthesia to give, refer to this type
of doctor.
Scrub nurse - Answer Responsible for scrubbing for surgery, including setting up sterile tables and
equipments
PACU nurse - Answer Responsible for caring of the client until the client has recovered from the effects
of anesthesia
Orthopedic procedures - Answer A type of surgery that carries big equipments
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS 2025
Surgery - Answer A branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of diseases, deformities, and
injuries through manual procedures called operations
Ectomy - Answer Excision or removal/cutting out or off (Ex. Appendectomy)
Lysis - Answer Destruction of/removal
Orraphy - Answer Repair or suture of
Oscopy - Answer Looking into
Ostomy - Answer Creation of opening to furnish an outlet (Ex. Colonostomy)
Plasty - Answer Repair of scar or tissue revision
Oma - Answer Tumer excision of a fibroma
Otomy - Answer Cut into - thoracotomy - cut into the ches cavity
Pexy - Answer Fixation, anchor into place
Perioperative period - Answer Encompasse a client's total surgical experience, including the
preoperative and postoperative phases
Perioperative nursing - Answer Activities performed by the professional nurses during the perioperative
perioid
, Preoperative phase - Answer Begins with the decision to perform surgery and ends with the client;s
transfer to the OR table
Intaoperative phase - Answer Begins with the client is recieved in the OR and ends with his admission to
the PARR or PACU
Postoperative period - Answer Begins with the client admitted to PARR and extends through follow up
home care or clinic evaluation
Anesthesiologist/Nursing Anesthetist - Answer Makes a preoperative assessment to plan the type of
anesthetic to be administered
Professuinal Registered OR Nurse - Answer Makes preoperative nursing assessment and documents the
intra-operative client care plan
Circulating nurse - Answer Manages the OR and protects the safety and health needs of the client by
monitoring the conditions in the OR
Anesthesiologist - Answer Part of the perioperative team that check patient, if patient is able to have
surgery and what type of anesthesia to give
Cardiologist - Answer If anesthesiologist is doubting on what type of anesthesia to give, refer to this type
of doctor.
Scrub nurse - Answer Responsible for scrubbing for surgery, including setting up sterile tables and
equipments
PACU nurse - Answer Responsible for caring of the client until the client has recovered from the effects
of anesthesia
Orthopedic procedures - Answer A type of surgery that carries big equipments
