Lady of Lourdes Colleges

College of Nursing
Comprehensive Examination
in Perioperative Nursing
By: Professor Erwin M. Escober BSN, RN, MAN (u.e)
NAME:__________________________ DATE: ______________
BSN: __________________________ SCORE:______________

General Directions:
This is a one hour and forty minutes (60 mins) 100 items test.
All Super impositions and Erasures are considered wrong.
Use only Blank Ball Pen in answering.
Please Refrain from Cheating.

I. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the following sentences. Write your answer on the

space provided.
1) Type of surgery with greater risk._____________________
2) Type of surgery with less complication._________________
3) Who declare whether major or minor the ongoing surgery.________________
4) Type of surgery to determine the presence or absence of disease.______________
5) Type of surgery to decrease the pain or alleviate the suffering of pt______________
6) Type of surgery that cure the pt ________________
7) Repair of congenital defect_______________
8) Repair of defect_____________
9) To remove an organ __________________
10) Total Nursing care in the whole O.R experience._______________

Optional Elective Required Urgent

11) Circumcision Emergent __________________
12) Rhinoplasty __________________
13) Cheiloplasty __________________
14) Thyroidectomy __________________
15) Superficial cyst removal ___________________
16) Vaginal repair` __________________
17) Cataract exenteration __________________
18) Repair of skull fracture __________________
19) Repair of multiple stub ___________________
20) Appendicitis suspected __________________
21) Appendicitis rupture __________________
22) 3rd degree burn thorax __________________
23) 3rd degree burn thigh ___________________
24) Involving ABC ___________________
25) Within 24-48 hours ___________________

II. ENUMERATION: Enumerate the following.

Abdominal Incision sites

26) _______________________
27) _______________________
 28) _______________________
29) _______________________
30) _______________________
31) _______________________
32) ________________________

Solution used in the OPERATING ROOM

33) ________________________
34) ________________________
35) ________________________
36) ________________________
37) ________________________
38) ________________________
39) ________________________

Members of sterile team

40) ________________________
41) ________________________
42) ________________________

Members of unsterile team

43) ________________________
44) ________________________
45) ________________________

Operative consent

46) Who OBTAIN ________________

47) Who WITNESS ________________
48) Who GIVE ________________
49) One Characteristic of # 48
______________________________
50) Overall status during OR
______________________________

III. Modified TRUE or FALSE: Write true if the statement is correct. If the statement is
false write the word/s that makes the statement wrong then write the correct
answer.
51) Gown is sterile only in front, chest until the level of sterile field and 3 inches above
the elbow until stocky net cuff.___________________
52) Sterile gloves are use during surgery. Open gloving is the most often technique used
during gloving._________________
53) Drapes are sterile. To maintain sterility, the unsterile team should maintain a distance
of 12 feet. ________________________
54) Tear and puncture in the drapes are considered unsterile. Changing of drapes is the
best thing to do. ___________________
55) Sterile field should be prepared closed to the time of use._______________
56) Bp cuff, stethoscope and rectal thermometer are under non critical Spaulding
classification of instruments
57) Fiber optics devices such as vaginal speculum and laryngoscope are considered semi
critical._________________________
58) Critical Spaulding classification of instruments should have the lowest level of
pathologic destruction.____________________
59) An indicator is used to determine whether the item is sterile._________________
60) Counting is a vital procedure in the OPERATING ROOM. 1 st close count is done before
closure of fascia.______________________