Southside College of Health Sciences: Nursing Program
Clinical Learning Center
Simulation
Ticket
Name:
Date:
Instructor:
Rev. 9/2021 SSY
Objectives:
Perform a post-operative client assessment.
Assess and empty a JP drain.
Identify early signs of post-operative infection.
Educate pt on post-operative management, to include early ambulation.
Course: NURS120
Simulation: Post-Operative Patient
Please review PRIOR to the simulation experience:
1. Reading: Lewis’s Medical-Surgical Nursing: pg. 342-343 Nursing Management: Surgical Wounds; pg. 342 table 19.7 Output from tubes, drains, catheters; pg. 343 table 19.10 nursing
assessment; pg. 344 discharge teaching & planning for discharge and follow-up care.
2. Medications: Hydromorphone, 0.9% Normal Saline, Ampicillin/Sulbactam (Zosyn)
3. Labs: WBC, HGB, HCT
4. Radiology: N/A
5. Skills: Administration of IV Push Medication, Primary and Secondary IV Medication, JP-Drains, Surgical Wound Assessment
Pre-Scenario Questions: Attach answers to this ticket for admission to simulation session. A completed simulation ticket must be submitted in Canvas prior to start of the scheduled
simulation. Failure to submit a completed ticket prior to the start of simulation will result in an automatic clinical absence and you will not be allowed to participate in the schedule
simulation.
1.Why would a client need an open Cholecystectomy?
2.If you were the nurse on med surge receiving a client who just had an open cholecystectomy, what information would you want to receive in SBAR format from the post-op nurse?
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3. What are three priority nursing diagnosis for a client who has this procedure?
4. What is a JP-Drain? How do you use the drain?
5. When conducting a pain assessment what are the PQRST questions you would ask the patient? List at least 8 questions. (Think “OLDCARTS”)
6. What are signs and symptoms of a surgical site infection?
7. Describe each type of wound drainage you might see in a post-surgical wound: Serous, Sanguineous, Serosanguineous, Purulent.
