Priorities in Critical Care Nursing (9th Edition) – Linda D. Urden & Kathleen M. Stacy – Complete Test Bank (Chapters 1–27)

TEST BANK

Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition,
Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Chapters 1 - 27, Complete

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UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING
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1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
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2. Ethical and Legal Issues
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3. Facilitating Care Transitions
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UNIT TWO: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE
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4. Psychosocial and Spiritual Considerations
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5. Nutritional Alterations and Management
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6. The Older Adult
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7. Pain and Pain Management
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8. Sedation and Delirium Management
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9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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UNIT THREE: CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS
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10. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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11. Cardiovascular Disorders
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12. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management
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UNIT FOUR: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS
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13. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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14. Pulmonary Disorders
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15. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management
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UNIT FIVE: NEUROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS
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16. Neurological Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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17. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT SIX: KIDNEY ALTERATIONS
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18. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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19. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT SEVEN: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS
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20. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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21. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT EIGHT: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS
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22. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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23. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT NINE: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS
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24. Trauma
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25. Burns
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26. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
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27. Hematological and Oncological Emergencies
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,Chapter 01: Critical Care Nursing PracticeUr
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den: Critical Care Nursing, 9th
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MULTIPLE k
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1. During World WarII, what type of wards were developed to care for criticallyinjured
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patients?
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b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
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During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients. Triage w
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ards establish the order in which a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hospital. Postoperativ
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e wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive careunits.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering
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REF: p. 1 OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A kr kr kr k r kr kr kr




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2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise andmanag
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es complex clinical and system issues?
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b. Advanced practice nurses kr kr




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d. Intensivists
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Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in theirspecial
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ty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical practitioners wh
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o manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are generally direct care providers. Clini
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cal nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering
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3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence basedandthat saf
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ety programs are in place?
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ce nurse c.
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d. Nurse practitioners
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, Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, research, l
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eadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that careis evidence based
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and that safety programs are in place. Advanced practice nurses (APNs)have
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a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical a
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nd systems issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nursepractitioners (N
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Ps) manage direct clinical care of groups of patients.
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4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams forregist
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ered nurses? kr




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c. Society of Critical Care Medicine kr kr kr kr




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Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State Board of
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Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administercertification exams. National Association of Cli
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nical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) does not administer certification exams. Society of Critical Ca
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re Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification exams for registered nurses.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering
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5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and spiritare inte
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Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and spirit are interdepen
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dent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each patient’s preferences,
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condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status. Cultural diversityin
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health care is not a new topic, but it is gaining emphasis and importance as the world becomes mo
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re accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces withplaces and peoples. I
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nterdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care professionals with the patient’s health a kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr




s the common goal.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering
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