Med-Surg Nursing I · Module 3 · Perioperative nursing

Perioperative Nursing Lab

Run a recovery bay where blood loss and opioids push the monitor around, practice perioperative decisions without limit, race the clock sorting medications, fevers and warning signs, and work through cases with fictional patients.

Part 1: PACU Bedside Explorer

Your jobYou are the PACU nurse. Change the blood loss and the opioid effect, then use a jaw thrust, oxygen and small naloxone doses. Watch the airway, the monitor, the compensation signs and the Aldrete score respond, and complete the challenges on the right.

Live bedside readouts

Teaching model with simplified, rounded numbers. Baseline blood pressure before surgery: 124/74. Real patients vary; follow orders and protocols.