Check Your Understanding Questions
1
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Describe the meaning of emergency/emergent surgical procedures.
2
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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
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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
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Describe sterile technique and its relation to surgical asepsis.
5
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Explain three key points a nurse should include in the patient education for a patient scheduled for surgery regarding the intraoperative phase.
6
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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.