1. One of the most effective nursing procedures for reducing nosocomial infections is:

2. When a PACU room scoring guide is used, a patient can be transferred out of the recovery room with a minimum score of:

3. The characteristic sign of a paralytic ileus is:

4. When vomiting occurs postoperatively, the most important nursing intervention is to:

5. One of the major dangers associated with deep venous thrombosis is:

6. Postoperative abdominal distention seems to be directly related to:

7. In the immediate postoperative period, a nurse should immediately report:

8. A nurse documents the presence of granulation tissue in a healing wound. She describes the tissue as:

9. Patients remain in the recovery room or postanesthesia care unit (PACU) until they are fully recovered from anesthesia. This is evidenced by:

10. Most surgical patients are encouraged to be out of bed:

11. With the PACU room scoring guide, a nurse would give a patient an admission cardiovascular score of 2 if the patient’s blood pressure is what percentage of his or her preanesthetic level?

12. A wound that has hemorrhaged carries an increased risk of infection, because:

13. A major postoperative nursing responsibility is assessing for cardiovascular function by monitoring:

14. Unless contraindicated, any unconscious patient should be positioned:

15. The nurse recognizes that a clean-contaminated wound has a relative probability of infection of:

16. Postoperatively, the nurse monitors urinary function. An abnormal outcome that should be reported to the physician is a 2-hour output that is:

17. It is estimated that health-care associated infections occur in the surgical site in what percentage of surgical patients?

18. A physician’s admitting note lists a wound as healing by second intention. The nurse expects to see:

19. One of the most common postoperative respiratory complications in elderly patients is:

20. A nursing measure for evisceration is to:

21. The primary nursing goal in the immediate postoperative period is maintenance of pulmonary function and prevention of:

22. Nursing measures to prevent thrombophlebitis include: