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Medical-Surgical Nursing

Check Your Understanding Questions

Medical-Surgical NursingCheck Your Understanding Questions

Check Your Understanding Questions

1 .
Describe the meaning of emergency/emergent surgical procedures.
2 .
The circulating nurse is coordinating the time-out and is feeling pressure from other members of the surgical team to skip or abbreviate the time-out. Why is the time-out necessary?
3 .
As a nurse, how would you prioritize the patient’s surgical experience, and prep the surgical environment to ensure optimal care and support throughout the perioperative journey?
4 .
Describe sterile technique and its relation to surgical asepsis.
5 .
Explain three key points a nurse should include in the patient education for a patient scheduled for surgery regarding the intraoperative phase.
6 .
Describe the most important aspects of the taking action step when using the CJMM as a critical thinking tool for a patient in the intraoperative phase.
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