All anesthetized surgical patients are at risk for unplanned hypothermia. Select the most effective preventative intervention.

All anesthetized surgical patients are at risk for unplanned hypothermia. Select the most effective preventative intervention.

A patient was presented with the prepared informed consent form during the discussion with her surgeon concerning her scheduled vaginal-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy. She demonstrated and verbalized that she understood all of the tenets of the procedure, risks, expected outcome, complications, and procedural process. Before she signed the consent form, she informed the surgeon that she did not want any medical students or surgical residents performing any parts of the procedure other than assisting and did not want any photographs of her body taken. The surgeon agreed, and she crossed out those portions of the form and initialed them before she signed. The patient was exercising her:

Select the true statement that best describes a key component of the culture of safety in regards to blood exposure.

Pediatric, geriatric, and physiologically compromised patients have impaired thermal regulatory mechanisms that place them at risk for hypothermia. The perioperative nurse should prepare the OR bed before patient arrival by placing:

Recent studies on the relevance of the Braden pressure ulcer risk scale in the perioperative and critical care setting are inconclusive. In which perioperative setting would the Braden scale be most predictive as a baseline metric?