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,Specialty Practice of Medical Surgical Nursing -✔✔ answer Promote, restore, or maintain optimal
health for patients 18 years and older
Nurses must have knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) to be
Care coordinators
Transition managers
Caregivers
Patient educators
Leaders
Advocates for the patient and family
National Certification from Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses
Certified Medical Surgical Registered Nurse
Quality Improvement (QI) -✔✔ answer Indicators used to monitor care processes and outcomes and
develop solutions to change and improve care
Requires collaboration within and throughout the healthcare system
CQI
• Identify Cause
• Research
• Implement Interventions
• Re-evaluate
• Change
QI Models
• Quality improvement
FOCUS-PDCA -✔✔ answer • Find a process to improve
• Organize a team
• Clarify the current process
• Understand the variations in the current process
• Select the process to improve
,• Plan the improvement
• Do the improvement
• Check for results
• Act to hold the gain
DMAIC -✔✔ answer • Define the issue or problem
• Measure the key aspect of the current process for the issue
• Analyze the collected data
• Improve or optimize the current process for the issue (collect data)
• Control the future state of the interventions
Immunity -✔✔ answer Protection from illness or disease
Risk factors
• Older age
• Low socioeconomic groups
• Non-immunized adults
• Chronic illnesses
• On chronic drug therapy
• Substance abuse disorder
• Genetic risk
Physiological consequences
• Suppressed or weakened immune system
• Susceptibility to infections
• Exaggerated or heightened immune system
• Autoimmune reactions or Disease
Gas Exchange -✔✔ answer The process of oxygen transport to cells, and carbon dioxide transport
away from cells
, Risk factors
• Anemia
• Acute or chronic problems affecting central neurons, diaphragm function, skeletal muscle contractility
• Aging (loss of pulmonary alveoli elasticity)
• Lung diseases
• Opioid Use
• Smoking, environmental pollutant exposure
• Prolonged immobility
Pharmacological pain interventions -✔✔ answer Drug therapy
Multimodal analgesia
• Use of 2 or more drug classes
Multiple routes of administration
Around-the-clock dosing
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Advance patient monitoring
• Pump settings should always be confirmed by two nurses
Analgesics groups
• Non-opioid analgesics
• Opioid analgesics
• Adjuvant analgesics
Non opioid analgesics
• Acetaminophen
• Monitor patients taking acetaminophen for hepatotoxicity
• Provide pt education related to therapeutic dosages
• Reduced daily dose may be appropriate for older adults on long-term therapy
• NSAIDs—Ibuprofen, naproxen, celecoxib
• Reduced daily dose may be appropriate for older adults on long-term therapy
RN Final Exam questions
and 100% verified
answers 2025/2026 latest
update 2025/2026
USER
STUVIA
,Specialty Practice of Medical Surgical Nursing -✔✔ answer Promote, restore, or maintain optimal
health for patients 18 years and older
Nurses must have knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) to be
Care coordinators
Transition managers
Caregivers
Patient educators
Leaders
Advocates for the patient and family
National Certification from Academy of Medical Surgical Nurses
Certified Medical Surgical Registered Nurse
Quality Improvement (QI) -✔✔ answer Indicators used to monitor care processes and outcomes and
develop solutions to change and improve care
Requires collaboration within and throughout the healthcare system
CQI
• Identify Cause
• Research
• Implement Interventions
• Re-evaluate
• Change
QI Models
• Quality improvement
FOCUS-PDCA -✔✔ answer • Find a process to improve
• Organize a team
• Clarify the current process
• Understand the variations in the current process
• Select the process to improve
,• Plan the improvement
• Do the improvement
• Check for results
• Act to hold the gain
DMAIC -✔✔ answer • Define the issue or problem
• Measure the key aspect of the current process for the issue
• Analyze the collected data
• Improve or optimize the current process for the issue (collect data)
• Control the future state of the interventions
Immunity -✔✔ answer Protection from illness or disease
Risk factors
• Older age
• Low socioeconomic groups
• Non-immunized adults
• Chronic illnesses
• On chronic drug therapy
• Substance abuse disorder
• Genetic risk
Physiological consequences
• Suppressed or weakened immune system
• Susceptibility to infections
• Exaggerated or heightened immune system
• Autoimmune reactions or Disease
Gas Exchange -✔✔ answer The process of oxygen transport to cells, and carbon dioxide transport
away from cells
, Risk factors
• Anemia
• Acute or chronic problems affecting central neurons, diaphragm function, skeletal muscle contractility
• Aging (loss of pulmonary alveoli elasticity)
• Lung diseases
• Opioid Use
• Smoking, environmental pollutant exposure
• Prolonged immobility
Pharmacological pain interventions -✔✔ answer Drug therapy
Multimodal analgesia
• Use of 2 or more drug classes
Multiple routes of administration
Around-the-clock dosing
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
• Advance patient monitoring
• Pump settings should always be confirmed by two nurses
Analgesics groups
• Non-opioid analgesics
• Opioid analgesics
• Adjuvant analgesics
Non opioid analgesics
• Acetaminophen
• Monitor patients taking acetaminophen for hepatotoxicity
• Provide pt education related to therapeutic dosages
• Reduced daily dose may be appropriate for older adults on long-term therapy
• NSAIDs—Ibuprofen, naproxen, celecoxib
• Reduced daily dose may be appropriate for older adults on long-term therapy
