CCN 1

Question 1

Delivery of specialized care to critically ill patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries.

Answer 1

CRITICAL CARE NURSING

Question 2

Responsible for making sure critically ill patients and families receive close attention and the best care.

Answer 2

CRITICAL CARE NURSE

Question 3

Polio Unit

Answer 3

1950

Question 4

is a person who works on another person’s behalf.

Answer 4

ADVOCACY

Question 5

A critical care nurse needs to exercise _________

Answer 5

CLINICAL JUDGEMENT

Question 6

use of a therapeutic and compassionate environment to focus on the patient’s needs.

Answer 6

CARING PRACTICES

Question 7

allows a health care team to use all available resources for the patient.

Answer 7

Collaboration

Question 8

Acknowledging and respecting patients’ diverse cultural beliefs.

Answer 8

CULTURAL DIVERSITY

Question 9

A critical care nurse is the facilitator of patient, family, and staff education.

Answer 9

EDUCATOR

Question 10

Essential nursing practices include monitoring, assessment, problem solving, evaluation, coordination, education.

Answer 10

CRITICAL CARE NURSE CHARACTERISTICS

Question 11

Quality and safety are essential components of patient care.

Answer 11

QUALITY & SAFETY EMPHASIS

Question 12

__________ is essential for delivering safe patient care.

Answer 12

COMMUNICATION

Question 13

The goal of true _________ in critical care is to create a culture of safety.

Answer 13

COLLABORATION

Question 14

A group of healthcare professionals mobilized to respond to early signs of clinical deterioration.

Answer 14

RAPID RESPONSE TEAM

Question 15

Care management plans for patients with a given diagnosis or condition.

Answer 15

CLINICAL PATHWAYS

Question 16

Specify courses of action to be taken in response to a diagnosis or condition.

Answer 16

PRACTICE GUIDELINES

Question 17

Facility-established sets of procedures for a given circumstance.

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PROTOCOLS

Question 18

Nurses committed to excellence regularly update and adapt their practices.

Answer 18

BEST PRACTICES

Question 19

Confronted with informed consent, life-sustaining treatment, transplantation, confidentiality, justice.

Answer 19

ETHICAL & LEGAL ISSUES

Question 20

Nurses have substantial ethical and legal obligations to promote and protect the welfare of patients.

Answer 20

ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS

Question 21

Describes the moral principles that guide professional nursing practice.

Answer 21

CODE OF ETHICS

Question 22

Protection of patients’ basic rights; recognition and resolution of dilemmas.

Answer 22

ETHICAL DECISION MAKING

Question 23

Autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, veracity, fidelity, confidentiality.

Answer 23

ETHICAL PRINCIPLES

Question 24

Includes diagnosis, treatment purpose, outcomes, benefits, risks, alternatives, prognoses.

Answer 24

INFORMED CONSENT

Question 25

Raises questions about rights to make decisions related to death or life-sustaining care.

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LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT

Question 26

Goals are to preserve life, restore health, relieve suffering, limit disability, reverse clinical death.

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CPR DECISIONS

Question 27

Ranges from not initiating hemodialysis to terminal weaning from ventilation.

Answer 27

WITHDRAWING LIFE SUPPORT

Question 28

right to initiate advance directives and consent or refuse treatment.

Answer 28

Patient Self-Determination Act

Question 29

Communication that specifies a person’s preference about medical treatment if incapacitated.

Answer 29

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

Question 30

Establishment of recovery rooms + coronary care units

Answer 30

1960

Question 31

Development of general intensive care units

Answer 31

1970

Question 32

A complex mixture of knowledge, intuition, logic, common sense, and experience

Answer 32

Critical Thinking

Question 33

Consist of healthcare provider that are quickly mobilized to respond to patients showing early signs of clinical deterioration

Answer 33

Rapid Response Team

Question 34

Withholding of specific treatments (incapacitated)

Answer 34

Living Will

Question 35

Protective of patient’s interest to medical treatment.

Answer 35

Durable Power of Attorney