NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course — Lesson 85: Perioperative Nursing: Preoperative Assessment, Consent, Teaching, and Intraoperative Safety

Sarah Mitchell walks through the preoperative assessment, latex allergy risk groups, which medications to hold or continue, current fasting guidance, and the preop checklist from consent to site marking to the time out. She covers coughing, spirometer, and leg exercise teaching, preoperative medications, malignant hyperthermia and dantrolene, anesthesia types with ASA classes, circulating and scrub nurse roles, surgical counts, positioning injuries, and special populations, with a consent scenario and a medication hold scenario.

Lesson 85 of 125 in the NCLEX-RN Complete Prep Course audio course from ExamPrepRise.

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