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AORN Periop 101 Final Exam Questions with Answers
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Restricted room - ✅✅· Air flow in the or rooms should have HEPA filter ·
Masks required
· Positive pressure
· 20 air exchanges/hr; min 4 exchanges from outdoor
· 68-75 F / 20-24 C
· Humidity 20%-60%
· Located WITHIN the semi-restricted & only ACCESSED through semi-restricted
· OR, Sterile Core, Utility Room
Semi Restricted - ✅✅· Equipment & sterile supply
· Sterile processing dept
· Sterile processing, storage, CPD clean/dirty, PACU, OR desk, OR corridor
Unrestricted - ✅✅· Pre-op holding area
· Waiting rooms
· PCU, endoscopy, pain clinic, locker room, hospital corridor, enter/exit
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Scrub clothes/suit - ✅✅Top
· secured at waist
· Tucked into pants
· Fit closely to the body
Hair
· All hair covered
· Bonnet or bouffant
Mask (surgical)
· Restricted areas when sterile supplies or equipment are present
· Clean mask every procedure
· Handle on mask ties
RN Circulator Responsibilities - ✅✅· Emotional support to pt prior to
anesthesia
· Ongoing pt assessment
· Verify accurate & complete prep of supplies, instruments & equipment
· Implement & enforce policies & procedures
· Preparing specimens
· Coordinate nursing care from other team members
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· Communicate info to other members of team & family ·
Documenting pt care
· Out of sterile field
· Patient advocate
Scrub - ✅✅· Establish & maintain sterile field
· Assist surgeon w/ instruments
RNFA - ✅✅· Additional education
· Knowledge of physiology & tissue
· RN - works directly under supervision of surgeon
Elements of professionalism - ✅✅· Governed by practice acts that outline the
legal scope of a nurse'e practice
· Maintain knowledge of policies (dept & institutional)
· Assess colleagues practice
· Active participant in professional organizations
· Ongoing professional development
· Maintain competencies
· Standard - what a reasonable prudent nurse would do
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· Ethical decision making - moral behavior, accountable nursing judgment
AORN - ✅✅· Guidelines do NOT replace institution or department policies ·
Evidence based
PICO:
Pt, population, problem
Interventions
Comparison
Outcome
Expense - ✅✅· Understand & manage expense assoc with surgical procedure
· Medical supplies, personnel, purchase services
IOM report (Institute of Medicine) - ✅✅· Nurses should practice to the full
extent of their education & training
· Nurses should achieve higher levels of education & training through an improved
education system that promotes seamless academic progression
· Ensure nurses engage in lifelong learning
· Accrediting bodies, nursing ed programs, health care org, & CE should
collaborate to ensure nursing continue their educate in lifelong learning
· FDA should give more attn. to safe use of meds