, Chapter 01: Critical Care Nursing Practice
Urden: Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. During World War II, what types of wards were developed to care for critically injured patients?
a. Intensive care
b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
ANS: C
During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients. Triage wards establish the order in which
a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hospital. Postoperative wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive
care units.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 2
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise and manages complex clinical and system issues?
a. Registered nurses
b. Advanced practice nurses
c. Clinical nurse leaders
d. Intensivists
ANS: B
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex
clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical practitioners who manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are
generally direct care providers. Clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 5
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based and that safety programs are in place?
a. Clinical nurse specialist
b. Advanced practice nurse
c. Registered nurses
d. Nurse practitioners
ANS: A
Clinical nurse specialists (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. Advanced practice
nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems
issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nurse practitioners (NPs) manage direct clinical care of groups of
patients.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 6
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams for registered nurses?
a. State Board of Registered Nurses
b. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
c. Society of Critical Care Medicine
d. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
ANS: D
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State Board of
Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administer certification exams. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS)
does not administer certification exams. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification exams
for registered nurses.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 7
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
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, 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?
a. Holistic care
b. Individualized care
c. Cultural care
d. Interdisciplinary 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 a mong a variety
of health care professionals with the patient’s health as the common goal.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 12
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
6. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has developed short directives that can be used as quick references for
clinical use that are known as
a. Critical Care Protocol.
b. Practice Policies.
c. Evidence-Based Research.
d. Practice Alerts.
ANS: D
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 9
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
7. What type of therapy is an option to conventional treatment?
a. Alternative
b. Holistic
c. Complementary
d. Individualized
ANS: A
The term alternative denotes that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is considered conventional treatment of a
condition or state. The term complementary was proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement or support
conventional treatments. 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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 16
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
8. Prayer, guided imagery, and massage are all examples of what type of treatment?
a. Alternative therapy
b. Holistic care
c. Complementary care
d. Individualized care
ANS: C
The term complementary was proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement or support conventional treatments.
Spirituality, prayer, guided imagery, massage, and animal-assisted therapy are all examples of complementary care. The term
alternative denotes that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is considered conventional treatment of a condition or
state. 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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: p. 16 | p. 17
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
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, 9. What is the systematic decision-making model used by nurses termed?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing evaluations
d. Nursing process
ANS: D
The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear. An essential and distinguishing feature of any
nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified
health alteration. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs formally at intervals designated in the outcome
criteria.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
10. What is a health condition primarily resolved by nursing interventions or therapies called?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: A
An essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Nursing interventions
constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes
occurs formally at intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is
cyclic, not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
11. Designing therapeutic activities that move a patient from one state of health to another is an example of which of the following?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: B
Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. An essential and distinguishing feature of
any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs
formally at intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic,
not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
12. A patient was admitted to a rural critical care unit in Montana. Critical care nurses are assisting with monitoring and care of the
patient from the closest major city. What is this type of practice termed?
a. Tele-nursing
b. Tele-ICU
c. Tele-informatics
d. Tele-hospital
ANS: B
Tele-ICU is a form of telemedicine. Telemedicine was initially used in outpatient areas, remote rural geographic locations, and
areas where there was a dearth of medical providers. Currently, there are tele-ICUs in areas where there are limited resources
onsite. However, experts (critical care nurses, intensivists) are located in a central distant site.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: p. 19
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
13. Which core competency for interprofessional practice can be described as working with individuals of other professions to maintain
a climate of mutual respect and shared values?
a. Interprofessional teamwork and team-based care
b. Values and ethics for interprofessional practice
c. Interprofessional communication
d. Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice
ANS: B
Values and ethics for interprofessional practice mean working with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual
respect and shared values. Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice include using knowledge of one’s own role and the
roles of other professions to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served.
Interprofessional communication includes communicating with patients, families, communities, and other health professionals in a
responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to maintaining health and treatment of disease. Interprofessional
teamwork and team-based care means applying relationship-building values and principles of team dynamics to perform effectively
in different team roles to plan and deliver patient population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 5 | Box 1-5 1-4 ed.9
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3
Urden: Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. During World War II, what types of wards were developed to care for critically injured patients?
a. Intensive care
b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
ANS: C
During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients. Triage wards establish the order in which
a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hospital. Postoperative wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive
care units.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 2
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise and manages complex clinical and system issues?
a. Registered nurses
b. Advanced practice nurses
c. Clinical nurse leaders
d. Intensivists
ANS: B
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex
clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical practitioners who manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are
generally direct care providers. Clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 5
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based and that safety programs are in place?
a. Clinical nurse specialist
b. Advanced practice nurse
c. Registered nurses
d. Nurse practitioners
ANS: A
Clinical nurse specialists (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. Advanced practice
nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems
issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nurse practitioners (NPs) manage direct clinical care of groups of
patients.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 6
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams for registered nurses?
a. State Board of Registered Nurses
b. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
c. Society of Critical Care Medicine
d. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
ANS: D
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State Board of
Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administer certification exams. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS)
does not administer certification exams. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification exams
for registered nurses.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 7
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. 1
, 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?
a. Holistic care
b. Individualized care
c. Cultural care
d. Interdisciplinary 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 a mong a variety
of health care professionals with the patient’s health as the common goal.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 12
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
6. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has developed short directives that can be used as quick references for
clinical use that are known as
a. Critical Care Protocol.
b. Practice Policies.
c. Evidence-Based Research.
d. Practice Alerts.
ANS: D
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 9
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
7. What type of therapy is an option to conventional treatment?
a. Alternative
b. Holistic
c. Complementary
d. Individualized
ANS: A
The term alternative denotes that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is considered conventional treatment of a
condition or state. The term complementary was proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement or support
conventional treatments. 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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 16
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
8. Prayer, guided imagery, and massage are all examples of what type of treatment?
a. Alternative therapy
b. Holistic care
c. Complementary care
d. Individualized care
ANS: C
The term complementary was proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement or support conventional treatments.
Spirituality, prayer, guided imagery, massage, and animal-assisted therapy are all examples of complementary care. The term
alternative denotes that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is considered conventional treatment of a condition or
state. 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.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: p. 16 | p. 17
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2
, 9. What is the systematic decision-making model used by nurses termed?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing evaluations
d. Nursing process
ANS: D
The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear. An essential and distinguishing feature of any
nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified
health alteration. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs formally at intervals designated in the outcome
criteria.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
10. What is a health condition primarily resolved by nursing interventions or therapies called?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: A
An essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Nursing interventions
constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes
occurs formally at intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is
cyclic, not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
11. Designing therapeutic activities that move a patient from one state of health to another is an example of which of the following?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: B
Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. An essential and distinguishing feature of
any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health condition. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs
formally at intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic,
not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
12. A patient was admitted to a rural critical care unit in Montana. Critical care nurses are assisting with monitoring and care of the
patient from the closest major city. What is this type of practice termed?
a. Tele-nursing
b. Tele-ICU
c. Tele-informatics
d. Tele-hospital
ANS: B
Tele-ICU is a form of telemedicine. Telemedicine was initially used in outpatient areas, remote rural geographic locations, and
areas where there was a dearth of medical providers. Currently, there are tele-ICUs in areas where there are limited resources
onsite. However, experts (critical care nurses, intensivists) are located in a central distant site.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: p. 19
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
13. Which core competency for interprofessional practice can be described as working with individuals of other professions to maintain
a climate of mutual respect and shared values?
a. Interprofessional teamwork and team-based care
b. Values and ethics for interprofessional practice
c. Interprofessional communication
d. Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice
ANS: B
Values and ethics for interprofessional practice mean working with individuals of other professions to maintain a climate of mutual
respect and shared values. Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice include using knowledge of one’s own role and the
roles of other professions to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served.
Interprofessional communication includes communicating with patients, families, communities, and other health professionals in a
responsive and responsible manner that supports a team approach to maintaining health and treatment of disease. Interprofessional
teamwork and team-based care means applying relationship-building values and principles of team dynamics to perform effectively
in different team roles to plan and deliver patient population-centered care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 5 | Box 1-5 1-4 ed.9
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
Copyright © 2022, Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. 3
