Your assignments this week are as follows. Do your assignments and post the answers in the forum. Remember to cite your source.

At the end of the week, I’ll post a video summary.

If your last name starts with B, A, D, E, or F

1. What is the Spaulding Classification for an LMA?
2. Why is it important to use sterile water to clean instruments on the field?
3. Laparoscopic appendectomy. When do you count the instruments?
4. What is the most effective sterilization? Chemical/biological/ radiation
5. Pt is scheduled for left knee amputation. Concerns that wrong site will be done. What should the nurse do? Surgeon to explain more / involve patient with universal protocol

If your last name starts with C, G, I, J, or K

1. Pt with TURP. What is the most important thing to get before procedure? Get correct irrigation solution/find out pt will get general or spinal anesthesia

1. Postoperative hypothermia. Why is it important to maintain a normal temp?
2. In a 2-month-old it is important to get an accurate count of blood loss. What is the most accurate way to do that during surgery?
3. What form of sterilization is used to sterilize a surgical pack?
4. What is Protamine sulfate used for?

If your last name starts with S, L, N, O, or P

1. What Biological indicator is used with a Ethylene Oxide?
2. Which position will compromise inferior Vena Cava, decrease respiratory tidal volume, and blood pooling in lumbar region. Lithotomy/Jackknife/Prone/Lateral?
3. What is the purpose of AORN?
4. What kind of hernia would you expect to find in Hesselbach’s triangle?
5. How is a cytology specimen sent to pathology?

If your last name starts with H, Q, R, T, or U

1. What do you do during a local procedure when a patient has a hearing aid? Is it removed? If so, when? What do you do with it?
2. What Wound class is an open fracture that happened less than four hours ago?
3. What medication commonly used to treat glaucoma would you tell the patient not to take prior to cataract surgery? Explain.
4. Which one is the implementation phase of the nursing process: The patient will maintain normothermia, the nurse teaches the patient about post op wound care, the patient was able to verbalize the steps needed to care for the external fixator, the surgical team consults the preference card for the upcoming procedure.?
5. What do you do if the pH, CO2 and HCO3 are all elevated?

If your last name starts with M, V, W, X, Y, or Z

1. What is the difference between local and moderate sedation?
2. Post parathyroidectomy what abnormal lab values are anticipated??
3. What nerve can be irritated by laparoscopic cases causing deferred pain in the shoulder post operatively?
4. In regard to movement of sterile supplies and equipment: move sterile instruments from clean core, to OR, to outer corridors, soiled linens go in the same place where decon happens, or take sterile packages out of the external shipping device before bringing it into the OR.
5. What are the three phases of wound healing?