AORN surgical test
: Collect data
: Conduct an assessment
: Develop a nursing diagnosis involving the pt
: Develop a plan of care - ANS-Preop Phase
: Evaluate nursing interventions
:Identify complications from the procedure
: Communicate care given - ANS-Postop Phase
: They work outside of the sterile field and work on all three phases of operating room (Preop,
intraop, Postop).
: During intraop she is the patient's advocate
: She uses the nursing process to provide great care - ANS-What is the role of a circulator?
:a physician who specializes in the administration and monitoring of anesthesia while
maintaining the overall well being of the patient - ANS-anesthesiologist role?
:establishing geographic isolation within the facility
:obtaining bacteriologic isolation through specific practices
:centralizing equipment and supplies to provide immediate access to specific items needed for
surgery without requring that personnel leave the protected area - ANS-Concepts critical to the
perioperative environment focus on
*bill documents for finance and accounting
*supply and equipment inventory
*communication of pt care by caregivers - ANS-important examples of activities that are made
possible with perioperative nursing documentation:
*central corridor
*central corridot with clean core plan
*combinationg of central core and peripheral corridoe
*racetrack plan or grouping plan - ANS-Most OR's are designed according to one of the four
basic designs
*scrub clothes
*head covers no skull caps (b/c dont hide neck hair and sideburns)
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