Statement about preoperative patient teaching | Yes/No | Correct Answer | Wrong Answer | ||
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General knowledge | N | % | N | % | |
Preoperative information should not be limited to surgical patients but involves their families | Yes | 287 | 70.7 | 119 | 29.3 |
Before surgery, perioperative nurses should schedule preoperative education | Yes | 344 | 84.7 | 62 | 15.3 |
Preoperative teaching is the responsibility of nurses working in surgical units | Yes | 271 | 66.7 | 135 | 33.3 |
Preoperative patient education increases preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing surgery | No | 218 | 53.7 | 188 | 46.3 |
Preoperative patient education will minimize postoperative problems in surgical patients | Yes | 301 | 74.1 | 105 | 25.9 |
Preoperative patient education helps patients understand what to expect following surgery | Yes | 298 | 73.4 | 108 | 26.6 |
Preoperative instruction assists surgical patients in the preoperative period only | No | 141 | 34.7 | 265 | 65.3 |
Teaching a patient about fasting times before to surgery is one type of preoperative instruction | Yes | 303 | 74.6 | 103 | 25.4 |
Preoperative patient teaching includes medications to use perioperatively | Yes | 288 | 70.9 | 118 | 29.1 |
Preoperative patient education involves explanations of the different forms of anesthetic to be used during surgery | Yes | 228 | 56.2 | 178 | 43.8 |
Preoperative teaching includes information about the perioperative environment | Yes | 291 | 71.7 | 115 | 28.3 |
Post-operative pain management is a part of preoperative teaching | Yes | 205 | 50.5 | 201 | 49.5 |
Preoperative patients’ teaching involves postoperative deep breathing and coughing | Yes | 263 | 64.8 | 143 | 35.2 |
Preoperative patient education involves early mobility and ambulation of postoperative patients | Yes | 264 | 65 | 142 | 35 |
Preoperative patients’ education involves information about skin decontamination on the day of surgery | Yes | 295 | 72.7 | 111 | 27.3 |
Preoperative patient education should advise patients undergoing surgery to keep their personal belongings to themselves | Yes | 186 | 45.8 | 220 | 54.2 |