HIGH-ACUITY NURSING COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● What is High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: A specialty dealing with human responses to life threatening
problems. Its the most intense hands on nursing.
●● How often do you do something for critical patients?
Answer: At least every hour.
●● Goal of High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: Provide high quality holistic care.
●● What do you do in High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: -Analyze critical situations
-Make decisions based on this analysis
-Rapidly intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes
-Comfortable with uncertainty & patient instability
●● What kind of patients will you see in high acuity nursing?
Answer: -Physiologically unstable
, -At risk for serious complications
-Require intense and complicated nursing support and/or the advanced
use of technology
●● What do all patients in high acuity nursing have on them at all times?
Answer: EKG Monitor
●● Common Problems in high acuity settings?
Answer: Respiration/Circulation
Nutrition
Anxiety
Pain
Impaired Communication
Sensory Perceptual Impairments
Sleep Deprivation
●● What can cause anxiety?
Answer: Pain.
●● What should you do when patients have pain related anxiety?
EXAM SCRIPT VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED APLUS
●● What is High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: A specialty dealing with human responses to life threatening
problems. Its the most intense hands on nursing.
●● How often do you do something for critical patients?
Answer: At least every hour.
●● Goal of High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: Provide high quality holistic care.
●● What do you do in High Acuity Nursing?
Answer: -Analyze critical situations
-Make decisions based on this analysis
-Rapidly intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes
-Comfortable with uncertainty & patient instability
●● What kind of patients will you see in high acuity nursing?
Answer: -Physiologically unstable
, -At risk for serious complications
-Require intense and complicated nursing support and/or the advanced
use of technology
●● What do all patients in high acuity nursing have on them at all times?
Answer: EKG Monitor
●● Common Problems in high acuity settings?
Answer: Respiration/Circulation
Nutrition
Anxiety
Pain
Impaired Communication
Sensory Perceptual Impairments
Sleep Deprivation
●● What can cause anxiety?
Answer: Pain.
●● What should you do when patients have pain related anxiety?
