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Test bank for Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition by Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, and Mary E. Lough ISBN: 9780323809818 All Chapters Latest Edition Grade A+

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




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 Practic
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eUrden: Critical Care Nursing, 9th
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1. During World War II, what type of wards were developed to care for critical
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lyinjured patients?
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a. Intensive care km


b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
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During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients
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. Triage wards establish the order in which a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a
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mhospital. Postoperative wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive c
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REF: p. 1 OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A km km km k m km km km


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mand Effective Care Environment
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2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise a
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ndmanages complex clinical and system issues?
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b.Advanced practice nurses km km


c.Clinical nurse leaders km km


d.Intensivists
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Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in th
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eirspecialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medic
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al practitioners who manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are generally
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direct care providers. Clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system is
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sues.

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REF: p. 2 OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A km km km k m km km km


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mand Effective Care Environment
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3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based a
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ndthat safety programs are in place?
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cialist b. Advancedpra
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d. Nurse practitioners
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ANS: A km

, Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, r
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esearch, leadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that care
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is evidence based and that safety programs are in place. Advanced practice nurses (AP
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Ns)have km


a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage comple
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x clinical and systems issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nu
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rsepractitioners (NPs) manage direct clinical care of groups of patients.
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mand Effective Care Environment
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4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams for
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registered nurses? km


a. State Board of Registered Nurses
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b. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
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c. Society of Critical Care Medicine km km km km


d. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses km km km km




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American Association of Critical- km km km


Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State B
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oard of Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administercertification exams. National As
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sociation of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) does not administer certification exam
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s. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification e
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xams for registered nurses.
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mand Effective Care Environment
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5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and s
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piritare interdependent and inseparable. This statement describes which methodolog
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y of care?
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Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and spirit are
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interdependent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each pati
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ent’s preferences, 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
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becomes more accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces wi
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thplaces and peoples. Interdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care profes
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sionals with the patient’s health as the common goal.
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REF: p. 4 OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A km km km k m km km km


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mand Effective Care Environment
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