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🛏️ Surgical Unit Fundamentals

🛏️ Surgical Unit Fundamentals

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  • 🗺️ Four Patient Scenarios

    Includes mastectomy, bowel obstruction, ORIF with change in condition and orthopedic surgery with acute renal failureSee learning objectives below.

  • 🏆 Level: Beginner

    Includes I&O calculation, basic teaching scenarios, simple lab trending, and basic nursing interventions.

  • ⏱️ Estimated Time

    Stand alone activity takes about 60-90 minutes to complete.

    Time is extended to 2+ hours with debriefing suggestions provided in the answer key!

  • 🩺 Created for Small Groups

    One deck is ideal for 4-6 students. Students manage one patient at a time. Patient scenarios can be separated.

Getting Started

How it works

Once you receive the deck in the mail, get your students in small groups. They will work together to complete the case study.

Learn to Play

Watch the Instructional Video

Students scan a QR code to learn how to play the game. You can check it out yourself too!

Check out the Instructional Video

Get to Work

Complete the Case Study

Through interactive puzzles within the deck and QR codes that connect to online questions, students must use teamwork, communication, and clinical judgment to complete patient care.

Learning Objectives

Post-Operative ORIF

  • Identify abnormal patient assessment findings related to pain
  • Utilize appropriate pain assessment tool for patient with a language barrier
  • Recognize appropriate pain interventions - pharmacological and non-pharmacological
  • Evaluate effectiveness of pain interventions
  • Complete a delegation to a CNA
  • Identify change in condition and implement appropriate nursing interventions
  • Apply telemetry and oxygen via nasal cannula
  • Use therapeutic communication techniques with an anxious patient
  • Analyze basic lab values related to pulmonary embolism

Post-Operative Mastectomy

  • Recognize abnormal assessment findings
  • Assess a surgical wound and document using wound vocabulary
  • Review orders and communication with a provider
  • Provide basic education on drain management
  • Understand the steps of emptying a JP surgical drain
  • Evaluate patient understanding after teaching
  • Calculate medication dosage based on order
  • Complete basic discharge instructions for a post-operative surgical patient

Acute Renal Failure

  • Recognize abnormal assessment findings and relate them to past medical history
  • Complete basic wound assessment and identify appropriate dressing
  • Analyze lab values and trend changes over time
  • Identify complications related to acute renal failure
  • Choose appropriate pain management techniques
  • Prioritize provider orders according to patient needs
  • Evaluate patient response to medical and nursing interventions

Bowel Obstruction

  • Recognize abnormal assessment findings related to small bowel obstruction
  • Complete a focused GI assessment
  • Review NG tube connections and use suction safely
  • Identify potential complications related to small bowel obstruction and related medical and nursing interventions
  • Calculate intake and output
  • Evaluate patient outcomes related to low urine output
  • Communicate with the provider and receive an order
  • Calculate IV fluid rate based on order

Practice Alternative Format Questions

The deck is a unique way to present Next-Gen NCLEX-style questions to students through an unfolding scenario. Types of alternative question formats include:

  • Drop-down CLOZE
  • Drop-down table
  • Multiple choice
  • Matrix multiple choice
  • Select all that apply
  • Short answer

Scan the code to try it out, or click the button below.

Try Out an Online Puzzle

🔍 Looking for more examples?

Here are a few more cards students will use during the activity.

📑Answer Key and Debriefing Guide

A debriefing guide for the instructor and an answer key accompanies the deck. Check out a few of the pages below.

An unfolding case study contained in a card deck!

Avoid the overwhelming and time-consuming task of creating an interactive and engaging activity for your students. This BreakoutRN Active Learning Deck brings puzzles, teamwork, and a clinical learning experience to any nursing classroom. 

🩺Designed to mirror nursing care at the bedside, students work through gathering and noticing important assessment data, organizing and identifying priority problems, and carrying out nursing interventions.

🗣️Through interactive puzzles within the deck and QR codes that connect to online questions, students must use teamwork, communication, and clinical judgment to complete patient care.

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