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Test Bank: Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition
Authors: Linda Urden, Kathleen Stacy, Mary Lough
UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING
Chapter 1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
Chapter 2. Ethical and Legal Issues
Chapter 3. Facilitating Care Transitions
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UNIT TWO: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE
Chapter 4. Psychosocial and Spiritual Considerations
Chapter 5. Nutritional Alterations and Management
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Chapter 6. The Older Adult
Chapter 7. Pain and Pain Management
Chapter 8. Sedation and Delirium Management
Chapter 9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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UNIT THREE: CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS
Chapter 10. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 11. Cardiovascular Disorders
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Chapter 12. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management
UNIT FOUR: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS
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Chapter 13. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 14. Pulmonary Disorders
Chapter 15. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management
UNIT FIVE: NEUROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS
Chapter 16. Neurological Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 17. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management
UNIT SIX: KIDNEY ALTERATIONS
Chapter 18. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 19. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management
,UNIT SEVEN: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS
Chapter 20. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 1. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
UNIT EIGHT: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS
Chapter 22. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
Chapter 23. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management
UNIT NINE: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS
Chapter 24. Trauma
Chapter 25. Burns
Chapter 26. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
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Chapter 27. Hematological and Oncological Emergencies
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, Chapter 01: Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
Urden: Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The chief nurse executive is organizing a team to address an organizational increase in
catheter-associated urinary tract infections. What type of practitioner would be appropriate
choice to lead this system-wide team?
a. Registered nurse
b. Advanced practice nurse
c. Clinical nurse leader
d. Intensivist
ANS: B
An advanced practice nurse (APN) manages complex clinical and systems issues and
would be an appropriate choice to lead the team. An intensivist is a medical practitioner
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who manages critical ill patients. A registered nurse (RN) is generally a direct care
provider. A clinical nurse leader (CNL) generally does not manage system issues. An
intensivist may be asked to consult with the team and the RN and CNL may be asked to
join the team but none of them would be the most appropriate to lead the team.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Applying OBJ: Nursing Process Step:
N/A
TOP: Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
MSC: NCLEX: Physiologic Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential
2. An employee health practitioner is concerned about the increase in work-related injuries
and is organizing a team to address safe patient handling. What type of practitioner would
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be the most appropriate choice to lead this team?
a. Clinical nurse specialist
b. Nurse anesthetist
c. Registered nurse
d. Nurse practitioner
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ANS: A
A clinical nurse specialist (CNS) would be the most appropriate choice to lead this team.
CNSs make good team leaders as they can use their clinical, teaching, research,
consultative and leadership abilities to address the problem. Nurse anesthetists administer
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anesthesia and would not be the most appropriate choice to lead the team. Registered
nurses are generally direct care providers and would be appropriate to include on the team
but not the most appropriate choice to lead the team. Nurse practitioners (NPs) manage
direct clinical care of groups of patients and would not be the most appropriate choice to
lead the team.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Evaluating OBJ: Nursing Process Step:
N/A
TOP: Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
MSC: NCLEX: Physiologic Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential