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AACN - correct answers ✅✅certify nurses; protect consumer by
establishing high standards of professional practice
CCRN - correct answers ✅✅certification for nurses who provide
care in critically ill adult, pediatric, or neonatal populations
PCCN - correct answers ✅✅certification for nurses who provide
acute care in progressive care, telemetry, and similar units
CNML - correct answers ✅✅certification for critical care
managers and leaders
CCNS - correct answers ✅✅certification for acute and critical
care clinical nurse specialists
Level A (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅meta-analysis or metasynthesis studies; results consistently
support specific action, intervention, or treatment
Level B (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅randomized and nonrandomized controlled studies; results
consistently support specific action, intervention, or treatment
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Level C (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅qualitative, descriptive, or correlational studies, reviews, or
trials with inconsistent results
Level D (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅Peer-reviewed with clinical studies to support
recommendations
Level E (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅theory-based evidence from expert opinions
Level M (Scale for Rating Research Evidence) - correct answers
✅✅Manufacturer's recommendation only
Ask-Tell-Ask (Communication) - correct answers
✅✅Communication technique that assesses concerns before
providing info
Situational Awareness (Communication) - correct answers
✅✅being aware of one's surroundings
Calgary Family Assessment - correct answers ✅✅Assessment
that involves structural, developmental, and functional
assessments
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Family Bundle - correct answers ✅✅Provide structure for
planning and carrying out family care; based on 5 concepts:
evaluate, plan; involve; communicate; support (EPICS)
Principlism - correct answers ✅✅widely applied ethical approach
based of 4 fundamental moral principles to contemporary ethical
dilemmas; respect for autonomy; beneficence; nonmaleficence;
justice
Beneficence - correct answers ✅✅the duty to provide benefits to
others when in a position to do so, to help balance harms and
benefits; the benefits of an action should outweigh the burdens
Futility - correct answers ✅✅states that care should not be given
if it is futile in terms of improving comfort or the medical outcome
Veracity - correct answers ✅✅states that persons are obligated
to tell the truth in their communication with others
Fidelity - correct answers ✅✅requires that one has a moral duty
to be faithful to the commitments made to others
Elements of Informed Consent - correct answers ✅✅competence
(capacity); voluntariness; disclosure of information
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Living Will - correct answers ✅✅a witnessed written document or
oral statement voluntarily executed by a person that expresses
the person's instructions concerning life-prolonging procedure;
not legally binding in some states
Proxy - correct answers ✅✅a competent adult, not designated to
make health care decisions for an incapacitated person, but is
authorized by state statute to make healthcare decisions for the
person
Surrogate - correct answers ✅✅a competent adult designated by
a person to make health care decisions should that person
become incapacitated
Patient Self-Determination act (End-of-life issue) - correct answers
✅✅requires that all healthcare facilities that receive medicare or
medicaid funding inform their patients about their right to initiate
an advance directive and the right to consent to or refuse medical
treatment
Withholding, Limiting, or Withdrawing Therapy - correct answers
✅✅Priority should be anticipating patient symptoms;
assessment of patient response; titration of therapy to relieve
emotional and physical distress; common meds used are
analgesics (ie. Morphine) and anxiolytics (ie. benzodiazepines)