TEST BANK FOR INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING, 8TH EDITION, MARY LOU SOLE, DEBORAH KLEIN, MARTHE MOSELEY

TEST BANK FOR INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING, 8TH EDITION, MARY LOU SOLE, DEBORAH KLEIN, MARTHE MOSELEYTEST BANK FOR INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING, 8TH EDITION, MARY LOU SOLE, DEBORAH KLEIN, MARTHE MOSELEY TEST BANK FOR INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING, 8TH EDITION, MARY LOU SOLE, DEBORAH KLEIN, MARTHE MOSELEY Chapter 1: Overview of Critical Care Nursing Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. Which of the following professional organizations best supports critical care nursing practice? a. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses b. American Heart Association c. American Nurses Association d. Society of Critical Care Medicine ANS: A The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is the specialty organization that supports and represents critical care nurses. The American Heart Association supports cardiovascular initiatives. The American Nurses Association supports all nurses. The Society of Critical CareMedicine represents the multi-professional critical care team under the direction of an intensivist. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 4 OBJ: Discuss the purposes and functions of the professional organizations that support critical carepractice. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 2. A nurse has been working as a staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit for 2 years and isinterested in certification. Which credential would be most applicable for her to seek? a. ACNPC b. CCNS c. CCRN d. PCCN ANS: C The CCRN certification is appropriate for nurses in bedside practice who care for critically illpatients. The ACNPC certification is for acute care nurse practitioners. The CCNS certification is for critical care clinical nurse specialists. The PCCN certification is for staff nurses working in progressive care, intermediate care, or step-down unit settings. DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplicationREF: p. 5 OBJ: Explain certification options for critical care nurses. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/AMSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 3. The main purpose of certification is to: a. assure the consumer that you will not make a mistake. b. prepare for graduate school. c. promote magnet status for your facility. d. validate knowledge of critical care nursing. ANS: D Certification assists in validating knowledge of the field, promotes excellence in the profession, and helps nurses to maintain their knowledge of critical care nursing. Certificationhelps to assure the consumer that the nurse has a minimum level of knowledge; however, it does not ensure that care will be mistake-free. Certification does not prepare one for graduate school; however, achieving certification demonstrates motivation for achievement and professionalism. Magnet facilities are rated on the number of certified nurses; however, that isnot the purpose of certification. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: pp. 4-5 OBJ: Explain certification options for critical care nurses. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/AMSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 4. The synergy model of practice focuses on: a. allowing unrestricted visiting for the patient 24 hours each day. b. holistic and alternative therapies. c. needs of patients and their families, which drives nursing competency. d. patients’ needs for energy and support. ANS: C The synergy model of practice states that the needs of patients and families influence and drive competencies of nurses. Nursing practice based on the synergy model would involvetailored visiting to meet the patient’s and family’s needs and application of alternative therapies if desired by the patient, but that is not the primary focus of the model. DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplicationREF: p. 5 | Fig. 1-3 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 5. The family of your critically ill patient tells you that they have not spoken with the physicianin over 24 hours and they have some questions that they want clarified. During morning rounds, you convey this concern to the attending intensivist and arrange for her to meet withthe 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 judgment and clinical reasoning skills c. Collaboration with patients, families, and team members d. Facilitation of learning for patients, families, and team members ANS: C Although one might consider that all of these competencies are being addressed, communication and collaboration with the family and physician best exemplify thecompetency of collaboration. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 9 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 6. The AACN Standards for Acute and Critical Care Nursing Practice use what framework toguide critical care nursing practice? a. Evidence-based practice b. Healthy work environment c. National Patient Safety Goals d. Nursing process ANS: D The AACN Standards for Acute and Critical Care Nursing Practice delineate the nursing process as applied to critically ill patients: collect data, determine diagnoses, identify expectedoutcomes, develop a plan of care, implement interventions, and evaluate care. AACN promotes a healthy work environment, but this is not included in the Standards. The Joint Commission has established National Patient Safety Goals, but these are not the AACN Standards. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 5 | Box 1-2 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 7. The charge nurse is responsible for making the patient assignments on the critical care unit. She assigns the experienced, certified nurse to care for the acutely ill patient with sepsis whoalso requires continuous renal replacement therapy and mechanical ventilation. She assigns the nurse with less than 1 year of experience to two patients who are more stable. This assignment reflects implementation of the: a. crew resource management model b. National Patient Safety Goals c. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) model d. synergy model of practice ANS: D This assignment demonstrates nursing care to meet the needs of the patient. The synergy model notes that the nurse competencies are matched to the patient characteristics. Crew resource management concepts related to team training, National Patient Safety Goals are specified by The Joint Commission to promote safe care but do not incorporate the synergy model. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses initiative involves targeted education to undergraduate and graduate nursing students to learn quality and safety concepts. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 5 | Fig. 1-3 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 8. The vision of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is a healthcare system drivenby: a. a healthy work environment. b. care from a multiprofessional team under the direction of a critical care physician. c. the needs of critically ill patients and families. d. respectful, healing, and humane environments. ANS: C The AACN vision is a healthcare system driven by the needs of critically ill patients andfamilies where critical care nurses make their optimum contributions. AACN promotes initiatives to support a healthy work environment as well as respectful and healing environments, but that is not the organization’s vision. The SCCM promotes care from a multiprofessional team under the direction of a critical care physician. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 4 OBJ: Discuss the purposes and functions of the professional organizations that support critical carepractice. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 9. The most important outcome of effective communication is to: a. demonstrate caring practices to family members. b. ensure that patient teaching is done. c. meet the diversity needs of patients. d. reduce patient errors. ANS: D Many errors are directly attributed to faulty communication. Effective communication has been identified as an essential strategy to reduce patient errors and resolve issues related to patient care delivery. Communication may demonstrate caring practices, be used for patient/family teaching, and address diversity needs; however, the main outcome of effectivecommunication is patient safety. DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: pp. 8-9 OBJ: Describe quality and safety initiatives related to critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 10. You are caring for a critically ill patient whose urine output has been low for 2 consecutive hours. After a thorough patient assessment, you call the intensivist with the following report.Dr. Smith, I’m calling about Mrs. P., your 65-year- old patient in CCU 10. Her urine output for the past 2 hours totaled only 40 mL. She arrived from surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm 4 hours ago and remains on mechanical ventilation. In the past 2 hours, her heart rate has increased from 80 to 100 beats per minute and her blood pressure has decreased from 128/82 to 100/70 mm Hg. She is being given an infusion of normal saline at 100 mL perhour. Her right atrial pressure through the subclavian central line is low at 3 mm Hg. Her urine is concentrated. Her BUN and creatinine levels have been stable and in normal range. Her abdominal dressing is dry with no indication of bleeding. My assessment suggests that Mrs. P. is hypovolemic and I would like you to consider increasing her fluids or giving her afluid challenge. Using the SBAR model for communication, the information the nurse gives about the patient’s history and vital signs is: a. Situation b. Background c. Assessment d. Recommendation ANS: B The history and vital signs are part of the background. Information regarding the low urineoutput is the situation. Information regarding possible hypovolemia is part of the nurse’s assessment, and the suggestion for fluids is the recommendation. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: pp. 8-9 OBJ: Describe quality and safety initiatives related to critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: Assessment MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 11. 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 wishes regarding health care. Youdiscuss contents of the living will with the patient’s physician. This is an example of implementation of which of the AACN 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 Discussing end-of-life issues is an example of a nurse acting ethically on behalf of the patient and family. The example does not relate to acquiring knowledge, promoting patient safety, orusing research in practice. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 5 | Box 1-2 OBJ: Describe standards of care and performance for critical care nursing.TOP: Nursing Process Step: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 12. Which of the following assists the critical care nurse in ensuring that care is appropriate andbased on research? a. Clinical practice guidelines b. Computerized physician order entry c. Consulting with advanced practice nurses d. Implementing Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals ANS: A Clinical practice guidelines are being implemented to ensure that care is appropriate and basedon research. Some physician order entry pathways, but not all, are based on research recommendations. Some advanced practice nurses, but not all, are well versed in evidence- based practices. The National Patient Safety Goals are recommendations to reduce errors using evidence-based practices. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 7 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 13. Comparing the patient’s current (home) medications with those ordered during hospitalizationand communicating a complete list of medications to the next provider when the patient is transferred within an organization or to another setting are strategies to: a. improve accuracy of patient identification. b. prevent errors related to look-alike and sound-alike medications. c. reconcile medications across the continuum of care. d. reduce harms associated with administration of anticoagulants. ANS: C These are steps recommended in the National Patient Safety Goals to reconcile medications across the continuum of care. Improving accuracy of patient identification is another NationalPatient Safety Goal. Preventing errors related to look-alike and sound-alike medications is done to improve medication safety, not medication reconciliation. Reducing harms associatedwith administration of anticoagulants is another National Patient Safety Goal. DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 6 | Box 1-3 OBJ: Describe quality and safety initiatives related to critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 14. As part of nursing management of a critically ill patient, orders are written to keep the head ofthe bed elevated at 30 degrees, awaken the patient from sedation each morning to assess readiness to wean from mechanical ventilation, and implement oral care protocols every 4 hours. These interventions are done as a group to reduce the risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia. This group of evidence-based interventions is often called a: a. bundle of care. b. clinical practice guideline. c. patient safety goal. d. quality improvement initiative. ANS: A A group of evidence-based interventions done as a whole to improve outcomes is termed a bundle of care. This is an example of the ventilator bundle. Oftentimes these bundles are derived from clinical practice guidelines and are monitored for compliance as part of qualityimprovement initiatives. At some point, these may become part of patient safety goals. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 6 OBJ: Describe quality and safety initiatives related to critical care nursing.TOP: Nursing Process Step: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 15. You work in an intermediate care unit that has experienced high nursing turnover. The nurse manager is often considered to be an autocratic leader by staff members and her leadership style is contributing to turnover. You have asked to be involved in developing new guidelines to prevent pressure ulcers in your patient population. The nurse manager tells you that you do not yet have enough experience to be on the prevention task force. This situation and setting isan example of: a. a barrier to handoff communication. b. a work environment that is unhealthy. c. ineffective decision making. d. nursing practice that is not evidence-based. ANS: B These are examples of an unhealthy work environment. A healthy work environment values communication, collaboration, and effective decision making. It also has authentic leadership.It is not an example of handoff communication, which is communication that occurs to transition patient care from one staff member to another. Neither does it relate to ineffective decision making. As a nurse, you can still implement evidence-based practice, but your influence in the unit is limited by the unhealthy work environment. DIF: Cognitive Level: Analysis REF: p. 7 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: N/A MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment 16. Which of the following statements describes the core concept of the synergy model ofpractice? a. All nurses must be certified in order to have the synergy model implemented. b. Family members must be included in daily interdisciplinary rounds. c. Nurses and physicians must work collaboratively and synergistically to influencecare. d. Unique needs of patients and their families influence nursing competencies. ANS: D The synergy model of practice is care based on the unique needs and characteristics of the patient and family members. Although critical care certification is based on the synergy model, the model does not specifically address certification. Inclusion of family members intothe daily rounds is an example of implementation of the synergy model. With the focus on patients and family members with nurse interaction, the synergy model does not address physician collaboration. DIF: Cognitive Level: ApplicationREF: p. 5 | Fig. 1-3 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing.TOP: Nursing Process Step: Implementation MSC: NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity 17. A nurse who plans care based on the patient’s gender, ethnicity, spirituality, and lifestyle issaid to: a. be a moral advocate. b. facilitate learning. c. respond to diversity. d. use clinical judgment. ANS: C Response to diversity considers all of these aspects when planning and implementing care. Amoral agent helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns. Consideration of these factors does not necessarily facilitate learning. Clinical judgment uses other factors as well. DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 3 | Box 1-1 OBJ: Describe standards of professional practice for critical care nursing. TOP: Nursing Process Step: PlanningMSC: NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity MULTIPLE RESPONSE 1. Which of the following is a National Patient Safety Goal? (Select all that apply.) a. Accurately identify patients. b. Eliminate use of patient restraints. c. Reconcile medications across the continuum of care. d. Reduce risks of healthcare-acquired infection. ANS: A, C, D All except for eliminating use of restraints are current National Patient Safety Goals. Hospitals have policies regarding use of restraints and are attempting to reduce the use ofrestraints; however, this is not a National Patient Safety Goal. DIF: Cognitive Level: Anal