CC Institute CNAMB Certification Sample Questions

The CC Institute Certified Ambulatory Surgery Nurse Certification Sample Question Set on this page is designed to familiarize you with the actual CC Institute CNAMB exam format and question types. These sample questions help you understand how questions are structured and what to expect on test day. While they provide a useful starting point, they represent only a limited preview of the real exam experience.

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CC Institute CNAMB Sample Questions:

01. A drowsy patient being wheeled from Phase I to Phase II begins to retch and then vomits while lying supine on the stretcher.
What should the nurse do first?
a) Continue quickly to Phase II, where suction and an antiemetic are both readily available
b) Give the ordered antiemetic immediately to stop further episodes of vomiting
c) Stop the stretcher and raise the head of the bed to an upright position
d) Turn the patient onto their side and clear the mouth while suction is brought

02. A nurse notices that patients from one community at the center are consistently offered less analgesia in recovery than others, and that colleagues describe them as tending to overstate pain.
What should the nurse do?
a) Raise the issue with the affected patients so they can advocate for themselves
b) Discuss the assumption informally with the colleagues who expressed it
c) Raise the pattern with the manager using the recovery records that show it
d) Increase her own analgesia administration to these patients to correct the imbalance

03. A patient arrives in Phase I after general anesthesia, is breathing quietly, and is drowsy and not yet responding to their name. The stretcher is flat and the head is turned toward the nurse.
How should this patient be positioned?
a) On the side, or with the head turned and the airway supported, until protective reflexes return
b) Sitting upright as soon as the patient arrives so that breathing is easiest
c) Flat on the back, or slightly tilted, with the head in a neutral line and the arms at the sides
d) Prone with the face turned to the side and the chest supported on a pillow

04. A Phase II nurse receives an ambulatory patient and finds that the plan of care records the nursing diagnoses and the interventions performed but nothing about what the patient still needs before discharge.
What does this omission mean for the Phase II nurse?
a) A separate discharge-phase plan must be initiated and the preoperative documentation superseded
b) The recorded interventions and their times demonstrate that each problem was resolved before transfer
c) Discharge and escort readiness can be established from the physiologic recovery scoring alone
d) The individualized discharge criteria and outstanding teaching must be reconstructed from elsewhere

05. A senior team member at an ambulatory center regularly speaks sharply to junior staff in front of patients. Two nurses have said privately that they now avoid asking that colleague questions during cases.
Why must the manager act on this?
a) Because the junior nurses may resign and leave the center short of experienced staff
b) Because staff who avoid asking questions withhold information that safety depends on
c) Because the behavior breaches the center's standards for conduct toward colleagues
d) Because patients who witness the exchanges may complain about the center's professionalism

06. A young child recovering after an ambulatory procedure has met every discharge criterion but a settled awakening, and is now crying inconsolably and thrashing in a curtained recovery bay. The caregiver, who rejoined the child as soon as the airway was secure and expects to be leaving shortly, is visibly distressed and asks the nurse what is wrong.
Which nursing response is most appropriate?
a) Complete the discharge teaching with the caregiver while the awakening settles
b) Explain that this emergence behavior is usually brief while continuing to assess pain
c) Check for a distended bladder and give the child a chance to void
d) Reduce the noise and light in the bay and let the caregiver hold the child

07. An ambulatory center uses a preprinted plan of care for each common procedure, listing standard nursing diagnoses and interventions.
What must the nurse do with such a preprinted plan for it to serve an individual patient?
a) Add, remove and adjust the entries so that they match this patient's assessment findings
b) Check that every listed intervention has been carried out, and recorded, before the patient goes through
c) Attach the preoperative assessment form to the plan so both documents travel together
d) Sign and date the preprinted plan so that it becomes part of the patient's record

08. An older adult being prepared for a procedure under general anesthesia wears a hearing aid in one ear and has a full upper denture. The patient is anxious and relies on the hearing aid to follow conversation.
How should the nurse manage these two items?
a) Remove both items in the preoperative bay and store them together in a labeled container for safekeeping
b) Leave the hearing aid in until the procedure room and remove the denture first
c) Leave both items in place and inform the anesthesia professional of their presence
d) Ask the patient to decide about both items and record whatever the patient chooses

09. During a pre-admission telephone call a patient asks which of their regular medications to take on the morning of surgery. The list includes a blood pressure tablet, an inhaler and a diabetes medicine, and the anesthesia professional's preoperative medication instructions are recorded in the patient's chart.
How should the nurse handle the question?
a) Advise the patient to bring the medicines and ask the admitting nurse on the day
b) Advise the patient to take all their usual medicines with a small sip of water
c) Confirm the written instruction for each medicine against the anesthesia direction and read each one back
d) Advise the patient to take nothing by mouth on the morning of surgery including all their medications

10. Reprocessing is the step under most time pressure between back-to-back cases, and the same scopes are used all day. An ambulatory center performs back-to-back endoscopic procedures using flexible endoscopes with narrow internal channels.
Which aspect of processing these devices most requires the nurse's attention?
a) Hanging the endoscope vertically in a ventilated cabinet so that channels drain
b) Verifying that a leak test is completed before immersion so channel invasion is detected
c) Confirming the germicide's minimum effective concentration before each scope is immersed
d) Cleaning every internal channel meticulously by hand before high-level disinfection

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