Critical Care Nursing questions with correct answers

1952 CORRECT ANSWER critical care was developed in _____ 1970's CORRECT ANSWER critical care evolved as a specialty in the ________ concerned with human responses to life-threatening problems such as trauma, major surgery, or complications of illness CORRECT ANSWER what is critical care concerned with? the focus of critical care nursing is specifically concerned with patient and family responses to life-threatening problems and the prevention as well as the cure of such problems CORRECT ANSWER what is the nursing focus of critical care? preventative services (ex: mammograms, exercise programs, smoking cessation, etc.) CORRECT ANSWER many insurances will pay outright for what? need good time management and prioritization for how to treat these pts.: these pts. are really acutely ill CORRECT ANSWER what do you need to treat patients in the ICU as the nurse? use 2 identifiers to identify a pt. (ex: ask for their name and birthday while looking at their arm band) CORRECT ANSWER define the national patient safety goal of improving accuracy of patient identifiers this is referring to the recording of critical values to physicians. in the ICU pay close attention to when labs return, what results are, and report to team that ordered them. (ex: in neuro ICU when you have mannitol to treat increased ICP: this causes an imbalance in electrolytes that can be dang