CNOR Practice Questions & Answers,
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When should assistive technology be used when transfering a patient? - ✔✔When one team member is
required to lift more than 35lbs of patient
Time for surgeon to authenticate verbal orders (federal mandate, not hospital policy) - ✔✔48 hours
Examples of clinical alarms - ✔✔alarms on cardiac monitors anesthesia machines, ventilators (visual,
auditory or both)
Universal Protocol - ✔✔prevent wrong site, wrong procedure, and wrong surgery
1. Preop/ procedure verification process
2. marking site
3. time out
* part of assessment phase of Nursing Process
National Patient Safety Goals
Examples of full body patient transfer devices - ✔✔air-assisted transfer mattresses (hovermats), full
body slides, mechanical lifting equipment
Examples of safety-engineered devices to prevent sharps injuries - ✔✔blunt suture needles, safety
scalpels, needless systems, alternate wound closures
Contact time - ✔✔specific length of time disinfectants can remain in contact w/ microorganisms to
achieve disinfection
,For every time of equipment of supply used on or for patient, what document should always be
followed? - ✔✔IFU- manufacturer's instructions for use
Adverse reactions to polymethymethacrylate (bone cement) - ✔✔hypotension, cardiac arrest, CVA,
pulmonary embolism, fat embolism, hypersensitivity, thrombophlebitis, death
RN's action after hearing a verbal order from Dr - ✔✔read back the order
Symptoms of local anesthetic systemic toxicity - ✔✔metallic taste, confusion, dizziness, numbness
(initial phase)
Indication for use of BSS (Endosol) (balanced salt solution) - ✔✔keep eye moist during surgery
Effective meds to reduce postop N/V - ✔✔Droperidol, Ondansetron, Promethazine
Maximum number of meds prep RN should compound in periop suite - ✔✔Three
What type of muscle cell is affected during MH? - ✔✔Skeletal
Examples of research evidence - ✔✔RCTs, systematic reviews, quasi-experimental studies
Standardized language that reflects period nursing practices? - ✔✔Perioperative Nursing Data Set
(PNDS)
Examples of non-absorbable suture materials - ✔✔cotton, milk, nylon sutures
implant that reduces tremors, involuntary movements, gait problems for Parkinson's - ✔✔Deep brain
stimulator
,What is Unique Device Identification? - ✔✔FDA requirement; every device has a number (also on
package); for implantable life-supporting, sustaining devices
Risk assessment for pressure injuries - ✔✔Braden Scale, Munro Scale, Scott Triggers Tool
Using prophylactic dressings applied to healthy skin that is at risk for pressure injury may reduce effects
of - ✔✔pressure, shear, friction
Scatter radiation - ✔✔reflected off patient, table, shielding, material (secondary radiation)
risk to personnel in room
Leakage Radiation - ✔✔emanates from X-ray tube housing (secondary radiation)
Remnant Radiation - ✔✔exits patient & imparts image on film
poses little threat to personnel
The timing of the administration of a preoperative prophylactic antibiotic, when ordered for a patient
whose plan of care includes the use of a pneumatic tourniquet, should be based on the - ✔✔goal of
achieving optimal tissue concentration
& policy/ procedures of hospital
Limb occlusion pressure is the pneumatic
tourniquet pressure required to occlude
___________ blood flow in the limb. - ✔✔arterial
Before the pneumatic tourniquet is inflated, guidelines include the extremity may be exsanguinated by -
✔✔using an elastic wrap
elevating the limb
, The orthopedic surgeon and the anesthesia professional should determine the initial tourniquet inflation
pressure by measuringthe patient's - ✔✔limb occlusion pressure
During application of a pneumatic tourniquet to an extremity, the perioperative RN should position the
cuff tubing on or near the ___________ aspect of the extremity. - ✔✔lateral
A perioperative RN develops a plan of care for a patient whose surgery includes the use of a pneumatic
tourniquet placed on her right lower extremity. Monitoring the patient's temperature throughout the
perioperative period is considered what part of the nursing process for this patient? - ✔✔intervention
Maximum tourniquet cuff pressure for the
thigh should not exceed - ✔✔350mmHg
When the use of monopolar electrosurgery is anticipated, after the application of a pneumatic
tourniquet, the perioperative RN should place a single-use dispersive electrode _____________ to the
cuff. - ✔✔proximal
The employer must maintain the employee'sexposure record (ie, sharp incidents) for the duration of
employment plus ___ years? - ✔✔30 years
Using the Gown Liquid Barrier Performance Class rating, a surgical gown classified as a Barrier Level 4
should be worn when the anticipated level of exposure to fluids, splashes, or pressure on the gown is -
✔✔high
The perioperative RN should anticipate classifying a surgical wound when there is a controlled entry into
the GI tract without spillage of gastric or bowel content as - ✔✔Class II (Clean-contaminated)
Bonewax is made of - ✔✔beeswax, paraffin, and isopropyl palmitate.
Which of the following is NOT a type of skeletal traction? - ✔✔Cervical halo
Gardner-Wells tongs
