WorksheetsINP - OR TECH QUIZ
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
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
Operating room floors should be flooded with_____ and_____ at the end of each _____ as part of terminal cleaning procedures.
germicidal solution;mopped;case
detergent germicide;wet-vaccumed;case
germicidal solution;wet-vaccumed;day
detergent solution;mopped;day
Following a preoperative visit, the perioperative nurse creates a nursing diagnoses to
Identify patient's needs and to define actions to meet those needs
Follow a specific surgeon's orders
Document the level and progress of nursing care
Alert the OR team of specific instruments needed for the case
The Standards of Perioperative Nursing Practice, adopted in 1978, can be used as a guide for
Basic competency statements
Patient outcome standards
Policy and Procedure manuals
All of the above
The most common hazard associated with electricity in a procedure room is
fire
burns
electric shock
all of the above
Personnel entering the semirestricted area of the surgical suite are required to wear
clean scrub suit;mask
clean scrub suit; cap; mask
clean scrub suit; cap; shoe covers
clean scrub suit; cap
