Additional Questions

Question 1

List the 10 Abilities

Answer 1

Eat

Drink

Urinate

Defecate,

Breathe normally

Maintain body temp

Groom itself

Mobilise adequately

Sleep and rest adequately

Express normal behaviour

Question 2

Preoperative procedures assisting as scrubbed nurse

Answer 2

Don hair cap and scrub suit, short, clean fingernails

Pre-operative scrubbing of hands and arms

Don sterile gown and sterile surgical gloves.

Question 3

Nursing care examples

Answer 3

Prepare warm, comfortable cage in quiet environment.

Provide oxygen supplementation, use oxygen tent if mask not tolerated.

Prepare fluid therapy and administer on VS instructions.

Provide heat (i.e. heat pads, Bair Hugger) and monitor body temperature closely.

Monitor and record other vital signs – pulse and respiration.

Immobilise fracture – dressing applied above and below joint of limb affected.

Liaise with veterinary surgeons regarding provision of analgesia.

Question 4

Scrubbed nurse role

Answer 4

To be familiar with instruments and equipment on instrument trolley and

anticipate instruments required

Ensure instrument trolley is kept tidy

To pass instruments to the surgeon ready to be used.

All swabs, needles, instruments to be counted

Question 5

Nursing role whilst monitoring the patient under anaesthesia

Answer 5

Close monitoring and recording of the vital signs – temperature, pulse and respiration.

Body temperature is maintained

RR

MM’s

Palpate femoral pulse

Monitor planes of anaesthesia via palpebral reflex and withdrawal reflex.

Monitor and record fluid administration

Question 6

Describe appropriate care of the patient during recovery

Answer 6

Provide quiet, darkened and warm recovery area

Maintaining body temperature, i.e. Heat pads, bubble wrap –

Monitor closely and provision of fluid therapy.

Liaise with VS re analgesia

Encourage eating and drinking asap to check normal function/ability