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The charge nurse is responsible for making the patient assignments on the critical care unit. An experienced, certified nurse is assigned to care for the acutely ill patient with sepsis who also requires continuous renal replacement therapy and mechanical ventilation. The nurse with less than 1 ...

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Critical Care-Exam 1 Questions
The charge nurse is responsible for making the patient assignments on the critical care
unit. An experienced, certified nurse is assigned to care for the acutely ill patient with
sepsis who also requires continuous renal replacement therapy and mechanical
ventilation. The nurse with less than 1 year of experience is assigned to two patients
who are more stable. This assignment reflects implementation of the
a. crew resource management model.
b. National Patient Safety Goals.
c. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) model.
d. synergy model of practice. - ✔️✔️d. synergy model of practice.

The AACN Standards for Acute and Critical Care Nursing Practice use what framework
to guide critical care nursing practice?
a. Evidence-based practice
b. Healthy work environment
c. National Patient Safety Goals
d. Nursing process - ✔️✔️d. Nursing process


Which of the following professional organizations best supports critical care nursing
practice?
a. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
b. American Heart Association
c. American Nurses Association
d. Society of Critical Care Medicine - ✔️✔️a. American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses

A nurse has been working as a staff nurse in the surgical intensive care unit for 2 years
and is interested in certification. Which credential would be most applicable for the
nurse to seek?
a. ACNPC-AG
b. CNML
c. CCRN
d. PCCN - ✔️✔️c. CCRN

The main purpose of certification is to
a. assure the consumer that you will not make a mistake.
b. prepare for graduate school.
c. promote magnet status for your facility.
d. validate knowledge of critical care nursing. - ✔️✔️d. validate knowledge of critical
care nursing.

The synergy model of practice focuses on
a. allowing unrestricted visiting for the patient 24 hours a day.

,b. holistic and alternative therapies.
c. the needs of patients and their families, which drive nursing competency.
d. patients' needs for energy and support. - ✔️✔️c. the needs of patients and their
families, which drive nursing competency.

The family of your critically ill patient tells you that they have not spoken with the
physician in over 24 hours and that they have some questions they want clarified.
During morning rounds, you convey this concern to the attending intensivist and arrange
a meeting with the family at 4:00 PM. Which competency of critical care nursing does
this represent?
a. Advocacy and moral agency in solving ethical issues
b. Clinical judgment and clinical reasoning skills
c. Collaboration with patients, families, and team members
d. Facilitation of learning for patients, families, and team members - ✔️✔️c.
Collaboration with patients, families, and team members


The vision of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is a health care system
driven by
a. a healthy work environment.
b. care from a multiprofessional team under the direction of a critical care physician.
c. the needs of critically ill patients and families.
d. respectful, healing, and humane environments. - ✔️✔️c. the needs of critically ill
patients and families.

The most important outcome of effective communication is to
a. demonstrate caring practices to family members.
b. ensure that patient teaching is done.
c. meet the diversity needs of patients.
d. reduce patient errors. - ✔️✔️d. reduce patient errors.

You are caring for a critically ill patient whose urine output has been low for 2
consecutive hours. After a thorough patient assessment, you call the intensivist with
report. Which information do you convey regarding background?
a. Urine output of 40 mL/2 hours
b. Current vital signs and history of aortic aneurysm repair 4 hours ago
c. A statement that the patient is possibly hypovolemic
d. A request for IV fluids - ✔️✔️b. Current vital signs and history of aortic aneurysm
repair 4 hours ago

The family members of a critically ill patient bring a copy of the patient's living will to the
hospital, which identifies the patient's wishes regarding health care. You discuss
contents of the living will with the patient's physician. This is an example of
implementation of which of the AACN Standards of Professional Performance?
a. Acquires and maintains current knowledge of practice
b. Acts ethically on the behalf of the patient and family

,c. Considers factors related to safe patient care
d. Uses clinical inquiry and integrates research findings in practice - ✔️✔️b. Acts
ethically on the behalf of the patient and family

Which of the following assists the critical care nurse in ensuring that care is appropriate
and based on research?
a. Clinical practice guidelines
b. Computerized physician order entry
c. Consulting with advanced practice nurses
d. Implementing Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals - ✔️✔️a. Clinical
practice guidelines

Comparing the patient's current (home) medications with those ordered during
hospitalization and communicating a complete list of medications to the next provider
when the patient is transferred within an organization or to another setting are strategies
to:
a. improve accuracy of patient identification.
b. prevent errors related to look-alike and sound-alike medications.
c. reconcile medications across the continuum of care.
d. reduce harms associated with the administration of anticoagulants. - ✔️✔️c.
reconcile medications across the continuum of care.

As part of nursing management of a critically ill patient, orders are written to keep the
head of the bed elevated at 30 degrees, awaken the patient from sedation each
morning to assess readiness to wean from mechanical ventilation, and implement oral
care protocols every 4 hours. These interventions are done as a group to reduce the
risk of ventilator-associated pneumonia. This group of evidence-based interventions is
often called a
a. bundle of care.
b. clinical practice guideline.
c. patient safety goal.
d. quality improvement initiative. - ✔️✔️a. bundle of care.

You work in an intermediate care unit and have asked to be involved in developing new
guidelines to prevent pressure ulcers in your patient population. The nurse manager
tells you that you do not yet have enough experience to be on the prevention task force
and that your ideas will be rejected by others. This situation is an example of
a. a barrier to handoff communication.
b. a work environment that is unhealthy.
c. ineffective decision making.
d. nursing practice that is not evidence-based. - ✔️✔️b. a work environment that is
unhealthy.

Which of the following statements describes the core concept of the synergy model of
practice?
a. All nurses must be certified in order to have the synergy model implemented.

, b. Family members must be included in daily interdisciplinary rounds.
c. Nurses and physicians must work collaboratively and synergistically to influence care.
d. Unique needs of patients and their families influence nursing competencies. -
✔️✔️d. Unique needs of patients and their families influence nursing competencies.

A nurse who plans care based on the patient's gender, ethnicity, spirituality, and lifestyle
is said to
a. be a moral advocate.
b. facilitate learning.
c. respond to diversity.
d. use clinical judgment. - ✔️✔️c. respond to diversity.

Which of the following is a National Patient Safety Goal? (Select all that apply.)
a. Accurately identify patients.
b. Eliminate the use of patient restraints.
c. Reconcile medications across the continuum of care.
d. Reduce risks of health care-acquired infection.
e. Reduce costs associated with hospitalization. - ✔️✔️a. Accurately identify patients.
c. Reconcile medications across the continuum of care.
d. Reduce risks of health care-acquired infection.

Which of the following is (are) official journal(s) of the American Association of Critical-
Care Nurses? (Select all that apply.)
a. American Journal of Critical Care
b. Critical Care Clinics of North America
c. Critical Care Nurse
d. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly
e. Critical Care Nursing Management - ✔️✔️a. American Journal of Critical Care
c. Critical Care Nurse

The first critical care units were (Select all that apply.)
a. burn units.
b. coronary care units.
c. recovery rooms.
d. neonatal intensive care units.
e. high-risk OB units. - ✔️✔️b. coronary care units.
c. recovery rooms.

Which of the following nursing activities demonstrates implementation of the AACN
Standards of Professional Performance? (Select all that apply.)
a. Attending a meeting of the local chapter of the American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses in which a continuing education program on sepsis is being taught
b. Collaborating with a pastoral services colleague to assist in meeting spiritual needs of
the patient and family
c. Participating on the unit's nurse practice council

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