A patient who has returned to the surgical nursing unit from the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) is drowsy and requires verbal stimulation to remain aroused. The best position to maintain an airway for this patient is:

A nurse is providing pre-operative teaching to the patient. During this teaching the nurse notes that the patient should be sure to cough, breathe deeply, and turn from side to side every few hours. The nurse provides this teaching to help prevent which of the following?

In order for the anesthesiologist to accurately calculate the amount of anesthesia needed for an 82-year-old patient, the nurse should have data available on the medical record, such as:

Used by funeral homes to prevent contamination by bloodborne pathogens, which of the following is an example of an engineering control?

The nurse is taking care of a postsurgical patient and notes the incision is clean and dry, with sutures intact. The nurse further assesses that the wound is healing by:

A nurse is caring for a patient who returned from abdominal surgery 6 hours ago. The nurse notes that the abdominal dressing is nearly saturated with serosanguineous drainage and that a small amount of drainage is leaking from the lower edge of the dressing. Which action should the nurse take first?

Who is responsible for determining whether employees have occupational exposure to infectious agents regulated by OSHA?

The nurse is preparing a patient for a routine colonoscopy. The patient asks if the procedure will be painful. Which response by the nurse is accurate?

A nurse recognizes that which of the following clients may receive spinal anesthesia?

How many years must monitoring results be kept?