NCM 118 PRELIM QUESTIONS N
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
A critical care nurse is a nurse who works with patients with_______ medical problems
a. mild
b. life-threatening
c. typical
d. multiple - ANS ✔✔b. life-threatening
Critical care nurses can improve their quality of care by____
a. patients
b. reviewinf patient's care plans
c. reviewing research evidence
d. all of the above - ANS ✔✔d. all of the above
In order to to practice safely and effectively, critical care nurses never stop
a. Caring
b. Practicing
c. Learning
d. Leading - ANS ✔✔c. Learning
,What is the main purpose of certification for critical care nursing?
a. to assure the consumer that critical care nurses will not make a mistake
b. to help prepare the critical care nurse for graduate school
c. to assist in promoting more clients in a facility
d. to validate a nurse's knowledge of critical care nursing - ANS ✔✔d. to validate a nurse's
knowledge of critical care nursing
The family of your critically ill patient tells yoy that they have not spoken with the physician for
over 24 hours and they have some questions that they want to be clarifies. During morning
rounds, you convey thic concern to the attending intensivist and arrange for her to meet with
their family at 4:00 pm in the conference room. Which competency of critical care nursing does
this represent
a. advocacy and moral agency in solving ethical issues
b. clinical judgement and clinic reasoning
c. collaboration with patients, families and team member
d. facilitation of learninf for patienrs, families and team members - ANS ✔✔c. collaboration with
patients, families and team members
The association of nurse's standards for acute and critical care nursing practice uses what
framework to guide critical care nursing practice?
a. healthy work environment
b. national patient safety goals
c. evidence- based practice
d. Nursing process - ANS ✔✔d. nursing process
, The family members of a critically ill, 90 year old patient bring in a copy of the patient's living
will to the hospital, which identifies the patient's whishes regarding health care. The nurse
discuses the contents of living will with the patient's physician. This is an example of the
implementation of which of the critical care nurses' standards of professional performance?
a. Acquires and maintains current knowledge of practice
b. acts ethically on the behalf of the patient and family
c. considers factors related to safe patient care
d. uses clinical inquiry and integrates research findings in practice - ANS ✔✔b. acts ethically on
the behalf of the patient and family
which of the following assists the critical care nurse in ensuring that care is appropriate and
based on research?
a. clinical practice guidelines
b. computerized physician order entry
c. consulting witj advanced- practice nurses
d. implementing national patient safety goals - ANS ✔✔a. clinical practice guidelines
what was identified as the first critical care unit?
a. recovery room
b. burn units
c. neonatal icu
d. high risk OB units - ANS ✔✔a. recovery room
which nursing interventions would be the best support the family of critically ill patient
ANSWERS RATED A+ 2025/2026
A critical care nurse is a nurse who works with patients with_______ medical problems
a. mild
b. life-threatening
c. typical
d. multiple - ANS ✔✔b. life-threatening
Critical care nurses can improve their quality of care by____
a. patients
b. reviewinf patient's care plans
c. reviewing research evidence
d. all of the above - ANS ✔✔d. all of the above
In order to to practice safely and effectively, critical care nurses never stop
a. Caring
b. Practicing
c. Learning
d. Leading - ANS ✔✔c. Learning
,What is the main purpose of certification for critical care nursing?
a. to assure the consumer that critical care nurses will not make a mistake
b. to help prepare the critical care nurse for graduate school
c. to assist in promoting more clients in a facility
d. to validate a nurse's knowledge of critical care nursing - ANS ✔✔d. to validate a nurse's
knowledge of critical care nursing
The family of your critically ill patient tells yoy that they have not spoken with the physician for
over 24 hours and they have some questions that they want to be clarifies. During morning
rounds, you convey thic concern to the attending intensivist and arrange for her to meet with
their family at 4:00 pm in the conference room. Which competency of critical care nursing does
this represent
a. advocacy and moral agency in solving ethical issues
b. clinical judgement and clinic reasoning
c. collaboration with patients, families and team member
d. facilitation of learninf for patienrs, families and team members - ANS ✔✔c. collaboration with
patients, families and team members
The association of nurse's standards for acute and critical care nursing practice uses what
framework to guide critical care nursing practice?
a. healthy work environment
b. national patient safety goals
c. evidence- based practice
d. Nursing process - ANS ✔✔d. nursing process
, The family members of a critically ill, 90 year old patient bring in a copy of the patient's living
will to the hospital, which identifies the patient's whishes regarding health care. The nurse
discuses the contents of living will with the patient's physician. This is an example of the
implementation of which of the critical care nurses' standards of professional performance?
a. Acquires and maintains current knowledge of practice
b. acts ethically on the behalf of the patient and family
c. considers factors related to safe patient care
d. uses clinical inquiry and integrates research findings in practice - ANS ✔✔b. acts ethically on
the behalf of the patient and family
which of the following assists the critical care nurse in ensuring that care is appropriate and
based on research?
a. clinical practice guidelines
b. computerized physician order entry
c. consulting witj advanced- practice nurses
d. implementing national patient safety goals - ANS ✔✔a. clinical practice guidelines
what was identified as the first critical care unit?
a. recovery room
b. burn units
c. neonatal icu
d. high risk OB units - ANS ✔✔a. recovery room
which nursing interventions would be the best support the family of critically ill patient
