Priorities in Critical Care Nursing, 9th Edition,
Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy, Chapters 1 - 27, Complete
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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 PracticeUr
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den: Critical Care Nursing, 9th
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1. During World WarII, what type of wards were developed to care for criticallyinjured
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patients?
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b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
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During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients. Triage w
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ards establish the order in which a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hospital. Postoperativ
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e wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive careunits.
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PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering
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2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise andmanag
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es complex clinical and system issues?
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b. Advanced practice nurses kr kr
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d. Intensivists
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Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in theirspecial
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ty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical practitioners wh
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o manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are generally direct care providers. Clini
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cal nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
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3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence basedandthat saf
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ety programs are in place?
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ce nurse c.
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d. Nurse practitioners
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, Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, research, l
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eadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that careis evidence based
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and that safety programs are in place. Advanced practice nurses (APNs)have
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a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical a
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nd systems issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nursepractitioners (N
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Ps) manage direct clinical care of groups of patients.
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4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams forregist
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ered nurses? kr
a. State Board of Registered Nurses kr kr kr kr
b. National Association of Clinical NurseSpecialist kr kr kr kr rk
c. Society of Critical Care Medicine kr kr kr kr
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Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State Board of
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Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administercertification exams. National Association of Cli
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nical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) does not administer certification exams. Society of Critical Ca
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re Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification exams for registered nurses.
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5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and spiritare inte
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rdependent and inseparable. This statement describes which methodology of care? kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr
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Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and spirit are interdepen
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dent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each patient’s preferences,
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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 becomes mo
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re accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces withplaces and peoples. I
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nterdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care professionals with the patient’s health a kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr
s the common goal.
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