A Patient Has Just Arrived in the Recovery Room

question 9

Multiple Choice

A patient has just arrived in the recovery room. As part of the evaluation for determining discharge from the postanesthesia recovery unit, what will be the nurse's next action?

• A) Assess the patient's respirations, oxygen saturation, consciousness, circulation, and activity.
• B) Assess whether the patient wants the family in the recovery room.
• C) Assess the patient for pain.
• D) Take the patient's temperature.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Abilities

Mental skills that involve the ability to think, understand, learn, and remember.

Cognitive Perspective

View that thought processes are central to development.

Thought Processes

The mental operations involved in cognitive activities such as reasoning, perception, and judgment.

Intellectual

Pertaining to or involving the ability to think and understand ideas and information at a high level of complexity.