NURS 3032- Critical Care Week 1 Questions And Correct
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2025-2026
Critical care meaning - ANSWERS is a branch of medicine and nursing that is
concerned with the provision of organ or life support.
- Critically ill patients are those who have an actual or potential life threatening
health problem or disturbance in organ function.
- The person that can fix the patient, is that person. They must have physical
reserve to be able to heal, repair and restore itself. We are only giving the
patient's body a break in order to heal and return back to health.
- Critical care patients have extensive and invasive monitoring. The nurses are
required to assess this information, prioritise and implement
interventions/treatments early.
- Critical care nurses must be able to spot deterioration and act immediately. They
are highly skilled in order to intervene.
Critical care nursing ACCCN - ANSWERS Specialised nursing care of a critically
ill patients who has actual or potential disturbance in organ function. Critical care
nurses means to assist, support and restore the patient towards health or ease
pain and prepare them for a dignified death.
The aim of a critical care nurse is to build a relationship with the patients,
relatives, and empower the patient's physical, psychological, sociological and
spiritual capacities through preventative, curative and rehabilitation interventions.
History of critical care nursing - ANSWERS War: soldiers that were injured
were dying. Not from the injury but from an infection secondary to the injury.
- This was noticed, and this led to the initiation for infection control.
, - Florence nightingale initiated hygiene for nurses which reduced mortality rates
significantly.
1st and 2nd WW and Korea:
- Fighter pilots couldn't breathe due to the high g-force when taking off. This
caused them to not breathe, pass out and crash. There was an initiation for
positive pressure ventilation system which pushed air into the pilots lungs whilst
they were pulling in high g-force. First ventilation introduced. They recognised
that positive pressure ventilation pushes air into the lungs and helps you breathe.
- Also found a suit that pumps the legs to promote circulation and perfusion to the
brain.
- In Vietnam, people were dying from blood loss, therefore introduced fluid resus,
blood transfusions.
Advances following polio in 1952 - ANSWERS - patients' with polio stopped
breathing and nothing to keep them alive.
- 87% mortality rate due to respiratory failure.
- used negative pressure ventilation (iron lung)
- An anaesthetist introduced the first positive pressure ventilator for a 12 yo girl.
- Started to bag people with positive pressure ventilation
- Medical and nursing students were required to hand ventilate these patients
throughout 12 hour shift for weeks.
Iron lung - ANSWERS - first medical ventilator
- introduced the iron lung which is a negative pressure ventilator.
- How it worked: Patients were put into a tank and were seal from the neck. It
would suck pressure out of the system. By sucking air out of the system, it
physically caused the chest upwards and the patient then takes a breath. Once
Answers (Verified Answers) | Graded A+ | Latest Update
2025-2026
Critical care meaning - ANSWERS is a branch of medicine and nursing that is
concerned with the provision of organ or life support.
- Critically ill patients are those who have an actual or potential life threatening
health problem or disturbance in organ function.
- The person that can fix the patient, is that person. They must have physical
reserve to be able to heal, repair and restore itself. We are only giving the
patient's body a break in order to heal and return back to health.
- Critical care patients have extensive and invasive monitoring. The nurses are
required to assess this information, prioritise and implement
interventions/treatments early.
- Critical care nurses must be able to spot deterioration and act immediately. They
are highly skilled in order to intervene.
Critical care nursing ACCCN - ANSWERS Specialised nursing care of a critically
ill patients who has actual or potential disturbance in organ function. Critical care
nurses means to assist, support and restore the patient towards health or ease
pain and prepare them for a dignified death.
The aim of a critical care nurse is to build a relationship with the patients,
relatives, and empower the patient's physical, psychological, sociological and
spiritual capacities through preventative, curative and rehabilitation interventions.
History of critical care nursing - ANSWERS War: soldiers that were injured
were dying. Not from the injury but from an infection secondary to the injury.
- This was noticed, and this led to the initiation for infection control.
, - Florence nightingale initiated hygiene for nurses which reduced mortality rates
significantly.
1st and 2nd WW and Korea:
- Fighter pilots couldn't breathe due to the high g-force when taking off. This
caused them to not breathe, pass out and crash. There was an initiation for
positive pressure ventilation system which pushed air into the pilots lungs whilst
they were pulling in high g-force. First ventilation introduced. They recognised
that positive pressure ventilation pushes air into the lungs and helps you breathe.
- Also found a suit that pumps the legs to promote circulation and perfusion to the
brain.
- In Vietnam, people were dying from blood loss, therefore introduced fluid resus,
blood transfusions.
Advances following polio in 1952 - ANSWERS - patients' with polio stopped
breathing and nothing to keep them alive.
- 87% mortality rate due to respiratory failure.
- used negative pressure ventilation (iron lung)
- An anaesthetist introduced the first positive pressure ventilator for a 12 yo girl.
- Started to bag people with positive pressure ventilation
- Medical and nursing students were required to hand ventilate these patients
throughout 12 hour shift for weeks.
Iron lung - ANSWERS - first medical ventilator
- introduced the iron lung which is a negative pressure ventilator.
- How it worked: Patients were put into a tank and were seal from the neck. It
would suck pressure out of the system. By sucking air out of the system, it
physically caused the chest upwards and the patient then takes a breath. Once
