Author Question: The nurse is precepting a new nurse in the perioperative area. The nurse explains that perioperative ... (Read 143 times)

j.rubin · **on:** Jul 22, 2018

The nurse is precepting a new nurse in the perioperative area. The nurse explains that perioperative nursing is based on certain principles and includes (Select all that apply.)

a. Purchasing the correct equipment.
b. Providing high-quality and patient safetyfocused care.
c. Scheduling the right types of patients.
d. Conducting multidisciplinary teamwork.
e. Ensuring effective therapeutic communication.
f. Providing advocacy for the patient.

Question 2

A nursing student asks her nursing instructor to describe the primary purpose of evaluation. Which of the following statements made by the nursing instructor is most accurate?

a. During evaluation, you determine whether all nursing interventions were completed.
b. During evaluation, you determine when to downsize staffing on nursing units.
c. Nurses use evaluation to determine the effectiveness of nursing care.
d. Evaluation eliminates unnecessary paperwork and care planning.

SamMuagrove · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 22, 2018

Answer to Question 1

B, D, E, F
Perioperative nursing is a fast-paced, changing, and challenging field and is based on the nurse's understanding of several important principles, including high-quality, patient safetyfocused care; multidisciplinary teamwork; effective therapeutic communication and collaboration with the patient, the patient's family, and the surgical team; effective and efficient assessment and intervention in all phases of surgery; advocacy for the patient and the patient's family; and understanding of cost containment. Purchasing the correct equipment is important in any specialty of nursing. Perioperative nursing cares not only for the right types of patients, but for all patients with surgical needs.

Answer to Question 2

C
The purpose of evaluation is to determine the effectiveness of nursing care. The other options are not true statements. During evaluation, you do not simply determine whether nursing interventions were completed. The evaluation process is not used to determine when to downsize staffing or how to eliminate paperwork and planning.