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,Chapter 1 – Overview of Critical Care Nursing (6 questions)
1. Define and discuss the purpose and functions of professional organizations
that support critical care practice.
a. Support critical care nurses and practice
b. Validate knowledge, promote professional excellence, help nurses to
maintain upto-date knowledge
2. Certification options for critical care nurses.
a. AACN Certification is based on synergy model of patient care and
oversees process
b. Bedside practice: CCRN (adult, neonatal, and pediatric), PCCN
(those working in step-down units)
c. Advanced practice: CCNS (critical care clinical nurse specialist),
ACNPC (acute care nurse practitioner)
d. Subspecialty certification: cardiac medicine, cardiac surgery
3. Standards of professional practice for critical care nursing, what is synergy
model.
a. Guide clinical practice, establish goals for patient care, provide
assessment of outcomes
b. Synergy model – needs of patients and families drive practice 4.
What are current trends and issues in critical care nursing?
a. Trends – collaboration, communication, reduce hospital
readmission rates, increase use of technology, telemedicine
b. Issues – critical care patients more complex, increasing costs of care,
aging population and workforce, transfer of patients from the ICU
while still acute
5.Organization that support critical care nursing?
a. American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
– vision is driven by the needs of critically ill patients
and families
b. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) 6.
Purpose of National Safety Goal.
a. Communication, medication safety, reduce infections, reconcile
medications
, b. Accurately identify patient, medication reconciliation across the
continuum of care, reduce risk of HAI’s
Chapter 2 – Patient and Family Response to Critical Care (6 questions)
1. Nursing interventions to reduce stress to the family members.
a. Modification of environment – noise reduction (acoustical
tiles/design, sooting music, private areas for communication),
adequate lighting (natural lighting, night-day synchronization), design
of new units to promote health and safety
2. Impact of critical care hospitalization on the patient and family.
a. Stress, anxiety
3. Family needs and family-centered nursing interventions.
a. Needs – receiving assurance, remaining near patient, receiving
information, being comfortable, having support available
b. Interventions – facilitate visitation, provide information, encourage
family involvement in patient care, consider family presence during
procedures
4. Impact of family presence during resuscitation.
a. Able to witness that everything possible has been done, reduced
anxiety and fear about what is being done
5. Know the most stressors associated with mechanical intubation to patient
a. Alarms that sound from various devices
b. Bright, fluorescent lights
c. Lack of day-night cues
d. Sounds from the ventilator
e. Loss of privacy
6. Nursing strategies to help families cope with the stress in the critical area.
, a. Provide daily updates, explain the equipment used, encourage family
to take notes, provide continuity of care
Chapter 3 – Legal and Ethical (6 questions)
1. Ethical principles and legal concepts related to critical care nursing.
a. Autonomy – right of self-determination concerning medical care
b. Beneficence – duty to prevent harm, remove harm, and promote the
good of another person
c. Nonmaleficence – not to intentionally inflict harm
d. Justice – fair distribution of healthcare resources
e. Veracity – truthfulness
f. Fidelity – faithfulness to commitment
g. Confidentiality – respect for right to control information
2. Apply the components of a systematic, ethical decision-making model.
a. Assess
1. Contextual factors
2. Physiological factors
3. Personal factors
b. Consider options
1. Patient wishes
2. Burden vs. benefit
3. Ethical principles
4. Potential outcomes
c. Develop plan with patient, surrogate, family, and team
d. Act on plan
e. Evaluate plan
1. Short-term outcomes
CHAMBERLAIN EXAM QUESTIONS BANK
LATEST UPDATED VERSION 2025/2026 | WITH
EXPERT SOLUTIONS + RATIONALES |
GUARANTEED PASS
1
,Chapter 1 – Overview of Critical Care Nursing (6 questions)
1. Define and discuss the purpose and functions of professional organizations
that support critical care practice.
a. Support critical care nurses and practice
b. Validate knowledge, promote professional excellence, help nurses to
maintain upto-date knowledge
2. Certification options for critical care nurses.
a. AACN Certification is based on synergy model of patient care and
oversees process
b. Bedside practice: CCRN (adult, neonatal, and pediatric), PCCN
(those working in step-down units)
c. Advanced practice: CCNS (critical care clinical nurse specialist),
ACNPC (acute care nurse practitioner)
d. Subspecialty certification: cardiac medicine, cardiac surgery
3. Standards of professional practice for critical care nursing, what is synergy
model.
a. Guide clinical practice, establish goals for patient care, provide
assessment of outcomes
b. Synergy model – needs of patients and families drive practice 4.
What are current trends and issues in critical care nursing?
a. Trends – collaboration, communication, reduce hospital
readmission rates, increase use of technology, telemedicine
b. Issues – critical care patients more complex, increasing costs of care,
aging population and workforce, transfer of patients from the ICU
while still acute
5.Organization that support critical care nursing?
a. American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN)
– vision is driven by the needs of critically ill patients
and families
b. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) 6.
Purpose of National Safety Goal.
a. Communication, medication safety, reduce infections, reconcile
medications
, b. Accurately identify patient, medication reconciliation across the
continuum of care, reduce risk of HAI’s
Chapter 2 – Patient and Family Response to Critical Care (6 questions)
1. Nursing interventions to reduce stress to the family members.
a. Modification of environment – noise reduction (acoustical
tiles/design, sooting music, private areas for communication),
adequate lighting (natural lighting, night-day synchronization), design
of new units to promote health and safety
2. Impact of critical care hospitalization on the patient and family.
a. Stress, anxiety
3. Family needs and family-centered nursing interventions.
a. Needs – receiving assurance, remaining near patient, receiving
information, being comfortable, having support available
b. Interventions – facilitate visitation, provide information, encourage
family involvement in patient care, consider family presence during
procedures
4. Impact of family presence during resuscitation.
a. Able to witness that everything possible has been done, reduced
anxiety and fear about what is being done
5. Know the most stressors associated with mechanical intubation to patient
a. Alarms that sound from various devices
b. Bright, fluorescent lights
c. Lack of day-night cues
d. Sounds from the ventilator
e. Loss of privacy
6. Nursing strategies to help families cope with the stress in the critical area.
, a. Provide daily updates, explain the equipment used, encourage family
to take notes, provide continuity of care
Chapter 3 – Legal and Ethical (6 questions)
1. Ethical principles and legal concepts related to critical care nursing.
a. Autonomy – right of self-determination concerning medical care
b. Beneficence – duty to prevent harm, remove harm, and promote the
good of another person
c. Nonmaleficence – not to intentionally inflict harm
d. Justice – fair distribution of healthcare resources
e. Veracity – truthfulness
f. Fidelity – faithfulness to commitment
g. Confidentiality – respect for right to control information
2. Apply the components of a systematic, ethical decision-making model.
a. Assess
1. Contextual factors
2. Physiological factors
3. Personal factors
b. Consider options
1. Patient wishes
2. Burden vs. benefit
3. Ethical principles
4. Potential outcomes
c. Develop plan with patient, surrogate, family, and team
d. Act on plan
e. Evaluate plan
1. Short-term outcomes
