Priorities in Critical Care Nursing 7th Edition by Urden Stacy - Test Bank

Chapter 01: Caring for the Critically Ill Patient

Test Bank

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Which of the following units can provide high quality and cost effective care for patients who are less complex, more stable, and have a decreased need for physiologic monitoring could be placed on?

ANS: C

A growing trend in acute care settings is the designation of progressive care units, considered to be part of the continuum of critical care. In past years, patients who are placed on these units would have been exclusively in critical care units. However, with the use of additional technology and monitoring capabilities, newer care delivery models, and additional nurse education, these units are considered the best environment. The patients are less complex, more stable, have a decreased need for physiologic monitoring, and more self-care capabilities. They can serve as a bridge between critical care units and medical-surgical units, while providing high quality and cost effective care at the same time.

2. _____ have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and system issues.

ANS: B

APNs have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. CNSs serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, research, leadership, and consultative abilities. SCCM stands for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

3. _____ are instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based and that safety programs are in place.

ANS: A

CNSs serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, research, leadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that care is evidence based and that safety programs are in place. APNs have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. SCCM stands for the Society of Critical Care Medicine. AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

4. The _____ administers many critical care certifications exams for registered nurses.

ANS: D

AACN is the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. CNSs serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, research, leadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that care is evidence based and that safety programs are in place. APNs have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. SCCM stands for the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and spirit are interdependent and inseparable. This statement describes which methodology of care?

ANS: A

Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and spirit are interdependent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each patient’s preferences, condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status. Cultural diversity in health care is not a new topic, but it is gaining emphasis and importance as the world becomes more accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces with places and peoples. Interdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care professionals with the patient’s health as the common goal.

6. The AACN has developed short directives that can be used as quick references for clinical use that are known as

ANS: D

The AACN has promulgated several evidence-based practice summaries in the form of “Practice Alerts.” Evidence-based nursing practice considers the best research evidence on the care topic along with clinical expertise of the nurse, and patient preferences. Critical care protocol and practice policies are established by individual institutions.

7. A specific therapy or care that is an option to what is considered conventional treatment of a condition is known as