Surgical 2 Exam Questions With Complete Solutions
A 43-year-old client is scheduled to have a gastrectomy. Which
one of the following is a major preoperative concern? Correct
Answer The client smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.
A client asks the nurse, "Why must I do deep-breathing
exercises?" How should the nurse reply? Correct Answer
"Deep breathing helps prevent pneumonia and atelectasis."
After a patient has a surgery, you must explain any restrictions
before they can return to work, these include? Correct Answer
lifting, use of the extremities, or climbing stairs.
After surgery the client who smokes has greater difficulty doing
what? Correct Answer clearing the airways of mucous
secretions.
Also, the most important thing a patient who smokes, needs
education on is? Correct Answer the importance of
postoperative deep breathing and coughing.
An appendectomy is appropriately documented by the nurse, as
which of the following type of surgery? Correct Answer
Ablative surgery
An obese client (Mr. B) is admitted for abdominal surgery. To
which of the following postoperative complications does the
nurse recognize this client is more susceptible too? Correct
Answer ehiscence
, During the 1860s who was the first to discover the value of
handwashing and germ theory? Correct Answer Pasteur
How does the removal of any diseased body part affect body
image? Correct Answer leaves permanent disfigurement,
alteration in body function
In general when Nurse Tara McClothesoff is looking at the
classification of surgery, what might that indicate to her?
Correct Answer the level of care a clients might require.
In the operating room, the client tells the circulating nurse that
he is going to have the cataract in his left eye removed. The
nurse notes that the consent form indicates that surgery is to be
performed on the right eye. What is the nurse's best First action?
Correct Answer Ask the client his name.
In the pre-operative period, the nurse taught her patient Paula,
some leg exercises. Now, in the immediate post-operative
period, the nurse asks Paula to do these exercises every two
hours when awake. A family member wants to know the reason
for these leg exercises. How should the nurse reply? (Choose
most correct response) Correct Answer "Leg exercises
compress veins and prevent thrombi and emboli."
Karli recently had surgery and needed to wear SCD's. When
referring to these stockings used in the hospital for compression
what does the acronym SCD stand for? Correct Answer
sequential compression device
A 43-year-old client is scheduled to have a gastrectomy. Which
one of the following is a major preoperative concern? Correct
Answer The client smokes a pack of cigarettes a day.
A client asks the nurse, "Why must I do deep-breathing
exercises?" How should the nurse reply? Correct Answer
"Deep breathing helps prevent pneumonia and atelectasis."
After a patient has a surgery, you must explain any restrictions
before they can return to work, these include? Correct Answer
lifting, use of the extremities, or climbing stairs.
After surgery the client who smokes has greater difficulty doing
what? Correct Answer clearing the airways of mucous
secretions.
Also, the most important thing a patient who smokes, needs
education on is? Correct Answer the importance of
postoperative deep breathing and coughing.
An appendectomy is appropriately documented by the nurse, as
which of the following type of surgery? Correct Answer
Ablative surgery
An obese client (Mr. B) is admitted for abdominal surgery. To
which of the following postoperative complications does the
nurse recognize this client is more susceptible too? Correct
Answer ehiscence
, During the 1860s who was the first to discover the value of
handwashing and germ theory? Correct Answer Pasteur
How does the removal of any diseased body part affect body
image? Correct Answer leaves permanent disfigurement,
alteration in body function
In general when Nurse Tara McClothesoff is looking at the
classification of surgery, what might that indicate to her?
Correct Answer the level of care a clients might require.
In the operating room, the client tells the circulating nurse that
he is going to have the cataract in his left eye removed. The
nurse notes that the consent form indicates that surgery is to be
performed on the right eye. What is the nurse's best First action?
Correct Answer Ask the client his name.
In the pre-operative period, the nurse taught her patient Paula,
some leg exercises. Now, in the immediate post-operative
period, the nurse asks Paula to do these exercises every two
hours when awake. A family member wants to know the reason
for these leg exercises. How should the nurse reply? (Choose
most correct response) Correct Answer "Leg exercises
compress veins and prevent thrombi and emboli."
Karli recently had surgery and needed to wear SCD's. When
referring to these stockings used in the hospital for compression
what does the acronym SCD stand for? Correct Answer
sequential compression device
