A Nurse Is Teaching a Nursing Student How to Care

question 8

Multiple Choice

A nurse is teaching a nursing student how to care for patients in the perioperative period. Which statement by the student about preventing postoperative infections indicates a need for further teaching?

• A) "Applying hexachlorophene to the operative site preoperatively will help prevent infection."
• B) "It is important to ensure that all surgical instruments have been sterilized appropriately."
• C) "Operating room personnel should all perform a presurgical scrub with antimicrobial soap."
• D) "Preventing contamination by microorganisms in the environment is the most important perioperative measure."

Grasp the concept and implications of sensory adaptation on perception.

Understand top-down and bottom-up processing mechanisms in perception.

Describe the physical and neural mechanisms involved in vision.

Differentiate between various sensory and perceptual processes.

---

Definitions:

Ocular Lens

A transparent structure in the eye that helps to refract light to be focused on the retina, enabling vision.

MINITAB Output

The results or output generated from analysis conducted using the MINITAB statistical software.

Regression Analysis

A set of statistical processes for estimating the relationships among variables, often used to predict the value of a dependent variable based on the value of one or more independent variables.

Least Squares

A mathematical method used in regression analysis to find the line of best fit for a set of data by minimizing the sum of the squares of the differences between the observed values and those predicted by the model.