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Comprehensive Guide to Perioperative Nursing: Phases and Anesthesia

Comprehensive Guide To Perioperative Nursing: Phases And Anesthesia

This educational resource focuses on perioperative nursing, covering essential practices and protocols for patient care before, during, and after surgery. It's designed to enhance clinical decision-making skills, ensuring safety...

Questions: 29 | Attempts: 10 | Last updated: Aug 4, 2025

Sample Question 1
What is perioperative nursing?

Perioperative nursing is a field that deals with mental health assessments in a surgical setting.

Perioperative nursing does not involve any interaction with surgeons or anesthetists.

Perioperative nursing focuses solely on postoperative care.

Perioperative nursing is a nursing specialty that works with patients who are having operative or other invasive procedures. Perioperative nurses work closely with surgeons, nurse anesthetists, surgical technologists, and nurse practitioners. They perform preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care primarily in operating theatres, stress test evaluations, cardiac monitoring, vascular monitoring, and health assessments. AORN (associatio of perioperative registered nurses) is a professional associatio that empowers the OR nurse with education, standards of practice and peer networking.

Sample Question 2
What is the pre-operative phase?

Begins with decision to have surgery, lasts until patient is transferred to operating room or procedural bed.

Begins when the patient is already in the operating room.

Lasts until the patient wakes up from anesthesia.

Occurs after the surgery is completed.

Sample Question 3
What does the intra-operative phase encompass?

Begins when the surgery starts and ends when the surgery is completed.

Includes pre-operative preparation and post-operative assessment.

Extends from admission to surgical department to transfer to recovery room.

Is focused solely on the surgical procedure itself.