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. Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP): Nurse should know what before asking them to do something? A. Competency of UAP B. Assessment skills of UAP C. What skills they have completed before in Periop
2. Calcium, sodium, glucose in normal range. Potassium low. What should the nurse check for? A. Hyperglycemia B. Muscle twitching C. Hypotension
3. What are the four parameters of sterilization in a steam sterilizer?
4. In what direction would you expect the patient’s BP to go if they are bleeding out?
5. Patient is getting a Bier block, He understands  A. Wont have function of limb for a could hours after surgery B. He is not being put sleep for surgery, So he can drive home after

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

1. A nurse has the right to refuse to care for a patient if: She informs ahead of time so that other staff can be arranged, she informs 24 hours before the procedure, The ethics committee agrees, Something different?
2. How do NSAIDs affect wound healing?
3. What part of the nursing process is being used when the nurse notes the patient has lower back pain during the presurgical assessment? What part of the nursing process is it when the nurse grabs extra padding for positioning?
4. What’s the treatment for Laryngospasm?
5. How many nurses do you need during a moderate sedation case?

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

1. What radiology do you need to have available in a Fem-pop surgery?
2. How do we lower the legs when a patient is in stirrups and what are we preventing?
3. Patient has Ginkgo at 0800 the day of surgery, what do you do?
4. What national agency dictates fire safety in the OR?
5. Phacoemulsification question – most important for nurse to have for procedure? A. Lens B. ceiling mounted microscope?

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

1. What kind of blood transfusion reaction will the patient have dark urine?
2. What arrhythmia is a PVC every other beat?
3. The patient is bleeding postoperatively. What drug would you not want to give? Ketorlac or Meperidine
4. What is HIPAA?
5. When using a BIS monitor, what score is considered awake?

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

1. How do you reconstitute Dantrolene?
2. Sudden onset of Asystole on monitor. What do you do 1st?
3. Spaulding classification for bronchoscope?
4. Can you use glutaraldehyde for environmental cleaning of the surgical suite?
5. What does the R in SBAR stand for?