NSGG 432 - Exam 1 questions well
answered graded A+
Competencies for Acute & Critical Care Nurses - ANS ✔✔1. Clinical judgement and clinical
reasoning skills
2. Advocacy and moral agency in identifying and resolving ethical issues
3. Caring practices that are tailored to the uniqueness of the patient and family
4. Collaboration with patients, family members, and healthcare team members
5. Systems thinking that promotes holistic nursing care
6. Response to diversity
7. Facilitator of learning for patients and family members, team members, and the community
Purpose of critical care certifications - ANS ✔✔Certifications validate knowledge of critical care
nursing, promotes professional excellence, and helps nurses to maintain a current knowledge
base
Components of SBAR - ANS ✔✔S: situation
B: background
A: assessment
R: recommendation
Role of AACN - Synergy Model - ANS ✔✔American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
- Professional organization that was established to represent critical care nurses.
- Largest nursing specialty organization in the world
- Mission: to drive excellence in patient care through knowledge and influence
,- Vision: create a healthcare system driven by patient's and family's needs in which critical care
nurses make their optimum contributions
Role of SSCN - ANS ✔✔Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
- Multiprofessional society
- Mission: to ensure high-quality care for all critically ill patients.
Vision: to have care to all critically ill patients provided by an integrated team of professionals
Top stressors for patients in critical care - ANS ✔✔- Sensory stimulation (light and noise)
- Loss of privacy
- Lack of nonclinical physical contact
- Emotional pain
- Physical pain
EPICS in reference to the family bundle - ANS ✔✔E: evaluate
P: plan
I: involve
C: communication
S: support
Ethical issues in critical care - ANS ✔✔- Visiting hours
- Family presence during CPR
- Restraints
- Withhold/withdraw treatment/life support
- Informed consent
- Organ donation
,- Refusal of blood prodcuts
- Tissue transplantation
- Confidentiality
- Distribution of healthcare resources
- Advancing technology for life-sustaining treatments
Autonomy - ANS ✔✔Right of self-determination concerning medical care
Respect for the individual and the ability of individuals to make decisions about their own
health and future
- The basis for the practice of informed consent
Beneficence - ANS ✔✔Duty to prevent harm, remove harm, and promote the good of another
person
Actions intended to benefit the patients or others
- Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Nonmaleficence - ANS ✔✔Not to intentionally inflict harm
Actions intended not to harm or bring harm to others
- Duty to do no harm
Justice - ANS ✔✔Fair allocation or distribution of healthcare resources
Veracity - ANS ✔✔The obligation to tell the truth; Truthfulness
Fidelity - ANS ✔✔The moral duty to be faithful to the commitments that one makes to others
, Confidentiality - ANS ✔✔Respect for an individual's autonomy and the right of individuals to
control the information related their own health
3 elements of Informed Consent (medical treatment or research participation) - ANS ✔✔1.
Competence
2. Voluntariness
3. Disclosure of information
Ordinary Care - ANS ✔✔Involves common, noninvasive, tested treatments; Usual and
customary for the patient's condition
EX: nutrition, hydration, or antibiotic therapy
Extraordinary Care - ANS ✔✔Includes complex, invasive, and experimental treatments
EX: CPR or emergency cardiac care, maintenance of life support through invasive means, or
renal dialysis, gene therapy
The charge nurse assigns patients based on their acuity and the level of experience of the
critical care nurses on duty. This is an example of implementation of:
A. SBAR communication
B. Healthy work environment
C. National patient safety goals
D. Synergy model - ANS ✔✔D. Synergy model
Which professional organization's primary focus is to support critical care nursing?
A. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
B. American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
C. American Nurses Association
D. Society of Critical Care Medicine - ANS ✔✔A. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
answered graded A+
Competencies for Acute & Critical Care Nurses - ANS ✔✔1. Clinical judgement and clinical
reasoning skills
2. Advocacy and moral agency in identifying and resolving ethical issues
3. Caring practices that are tailored to the uniqueness of the patient and family
4. Collaboration with patients, family members, and healthcare team members
5. Systems thinking that promotes holistic nursing care
6. Response to diversity
7. Facilitator of learning for patients and family members, team members, and the community
Purpose of critical care certifications - ANS ✔✔Certifications validate knowledge of critical care
nursing, promotes professional excellence, and helps nurses to maintain a current knowledge
base
Components of SBAR - ANS ✔✔S: situation
B: background
A: assessment
R: recommendation
Role of AACN - Synergy Model - ANS ✔✔American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
- Professional organization that was established to represent critical care nurses.
- Largest nursing specialty organization in the world
- Mission: to drive excellence in patient care through knowledge and influence
,- Vision: create a healthcare system driven by patient's and family's needs in which critical care
nurses make their optimum contributions
Role of SSCN - ANS ✔✔Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
- Multiprofessional society
- Mission: to ensure high-quality care for all critically ill patients.
Vision: to have care to all critically ill patients provided by an integrated team of professionals
Top stressors for patients in critical care - ANS ✔✔- Sensory stimulation (light and noise)
- Loss of privacy
- Lack of nonclinical physical contact
- Emotional pain
- Physical pain
EPICS in reference to the family bundle - ANS ✔✔E: evaluate
P: plan
I: involve
C: communication
S: support
Ethical issues in critical care - ANS ✔✔- Visiting hours
- Family presence during CPR
- Restraints
- Withhold/withdraw treatment/life support
- Informed consent
- Organ donation
,- Refusal of blood prodcuts
- Tissue transplantation
- Confidentiality
- Distribution of healthcare resources
- Advancing technology for life-sustaining treatments
Autonomy - ANS ✔✔Right of self-determination concerning medical care
Respect for the individual and the ability of individuals to make decisions about their own
health and future
- The basis for the practice of informed consent
Beneficence - ANS ✔✔Duty to prevent harm, remove harm, and promote the good of another
person
Actions intended to benefit the patients or others
- Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly action
Nonmaleficence - ANS ✔✔Not to intentionally inflict harm
Actions intended not to harm or bring harm to others
- Duty to do no harm
Justice - ANS ✔✔Fair allocation or distribution of healthcare resources
Veracity - ANS ✔✔The obligation to tell the truth; Truthfulness
Fidelity - ANS ✔✔The moral duty to be faithful to the commitments that one makes to others
, Confidentiality - ANS ✔✔Respect for an individual's autonomy and the right of individuals to
control the information related their own health
3 elements of Informed Consent (medical treatment or research participation) - ANS ✔✔1.
Competence
2. Voluntariness
3. Disclosure of information
Ordinary Care - ANS ✔✔Involves common, noninvasive, tested treatments; Usual and
customary for the patient's condition
EX: nutrition, hydration, or antibiotic therapy
Extraordinary Care - ANS ✔✔Includes complex, invasive, and experimental treatments
EX: CPR or emergency cardiac care, maintenance of life support through invasive means, or
renal dialysis, gene therapy
The charge nurse assigns patients based on their acuity and the level of experience of the
critical care nurses on duty. This is an example of implementation of:
A. SBAR communication
B. Healthy work environment
C. National patient safety goals
D. Synergy model - ANS ✔✔D. Synergy model
Which professional organization's primary focus is to support critical care nursing?
A. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
B. American Association of Heart Failure Nurses
C. American Nurses Association
D. Society of Critical Care Medicine - ANS ✔✔A. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
