During a surgical procedure in a specific OR, which member of the surgical team primarily employs the use of the nursing process?

• Scrub Nurse

• Circulating Nurse

• Surgical Technologist

• Operating Room Supervisor

Which member of the surgical team are responsible for counting sponges after the procedure?

• Scrub nurse and Surgeon

• Surgeon and Circulating Nurse

• Anesthesiologist and Circulating Nurse

• Scrub Nurse and Circulating Nurse

During the final count of sponges, both of the nurses responsible for counting sponges concluded that one sponge is not accounted for. Who should be informed just in case the sponge is still not found after a search?

• Anesthesiologist

• Surgeon

• Surgical technologist

• X-ray technician

Which of the following is not a circulating nurse's task?

• position kick buckets

• pass additional sterile supplies to scrub nurse as needed

• prepare specimen for laboratory

• pass instruments to the surgeon

You view the patient's chart and you notice a deviation from normal values in the patient's serum electrolytes. Which member of the surgical team should you inform?

• Surgeon

• Anesthesiologist

• Scrub nurse

• OR Supervisor

Perioperative nursing practice involves the professional registered nurse caring the patient during

1. The preoperative phase

2. The intraoperative phase

3. The postoperative phase

4. The admission procedure for surgery

• 1,2,4

• 1,2,3

• 2 only

• All of the above

The primary purpose of the Operating Room Nurses during its early years was to

• Create standards of practice

• Write policy and procedure for surgery

• Establish a separate group for operating room nurses

• Gain national attention for nurses in surgery

According to the three-zone concept of surgical suite design, the dressing rooms are located in the____.

• restricted area

• clean area

• semirestricted area

• nonrestricted area

When preparing a procedure room for the first case of the day, the perioperativee nurse notices the room humidity level to be 70 percent. The first action should be to

• open the sterile supplies and call plant engineering to report the humidity level

• notify plant engineering of the problem before opening the sterile supplies

• adjust the thermostat to make the room colder

• do nothing since this reading is within acceptable limits

Traffic flow in and out of a procedure room should be kept to a minimum to

1. Decrease microbial count

2. Reduce noise level

3. Increase team concentration

4. Maintain positive pressure within the room

• 1 and 2

• 3 and 4

• 1,3,4

• All of the above