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Technician in Surgery TS-C Practice Test - Question List

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6. What is the most important action a tech can do to protect themself if they become the target of legal action from a patient?
  1. Document all patient assessments, nursing diagnoses and interventions for the patient.
  2. Keep a separate notebook for the tech’s own reference of any situations that were questionable.
  3. Have adequate professional insurance and access to a good attorney.
  4. Both A and B
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7. Which of the following statements best describes nursing informatics?
  1. Nursing informatics is a specialty that works to obtain information that may be used for legal action against techs or the healthcare center.
  2. Nursing informatics works with robotic equipment and engineering to develop the latest designs used in surgical technology.
  3. Nursing informatics is a specialty that uses computer science to manage data and educate techs.
  4. Nursing informatics is another name for nursing instructors.
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8. Which step of the nursing process is the most important part of patient education?
  1. Assessment
  2. Planning
  3. Diagnosis
  4. Intervention
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9. What should the tech include as part of documentation that patient teaching was completed?
  1. Who performed the teaching, where it was done, and why the patient needed the teaching
  2. Teaching topics, family members present, and the patient demonstrating proficiency
  3. The date and time that teaching was done and the patient’s ability to repeat the information.
  4. Patient teaching does not have to be documented
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10. A patient is admitted for an ambulatory surgery procedure and says to the tech, “I don’t need you to tell me anything. I already looked all of this up on the Internet yesterday.” What is the tech’s best response?
  1. “Are you sure you learned everything you need to know? You might not have been looking in the right places.”
  2. “It’s good that you are informed, but let’s review these topics anyway.”
  3. “I wouldn’t trust all of the sites out there. You can find a lot of misinformation these days.”
  4. “Since you have already looked everything up, please just sign here that your teaching is done.”
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