100% satisfaction guarantee Immediately available after payment Both online and in PDF No strings attached
logo-home
Previously searched by you
Previously searched by you
logo
critical care exam 1 Questions And Answers Rated 100% Correct $7.99
Add to cart
Quickly navigate to
Preview
  2.  
  3. Critical Care
  4.  
  5. Critical care

Exam (elaborations)

critical care exam 1 Questions And Answers Rated 100% Correct
 0 purchase
  • Course
  • Critical care
  • Institution
  • Critical Care

Care for a client with a chest tube includes: A. milking the tubing aggressively to maintain patency. B. encouraging coughing and repositioning C. clamping the chest tube while transporting the client. D. keeping the collection apparatus at or above the client's chest level. - ️️B. encoura...

[Show more]

Preview 2 out of 8  pages

Document information

  • October 15, 2024
  • 8
  • 2024/2025
  • Exam (elaborations)
  • Questions & answers

Subjects

Written for

  • Critical care
  • Critical care

Seller

avatar-seller
ACADEMICMATERIALS

Reviews received

Content preview

critical care exam 1
Care for a client with a chest tube includes:
A. milking the tubing aggressively to maintain patency.
B. encouraging coughing and repositioning
C. clamping the chest tube while transporting the client.
D. keeping the collection apparatus at or above the client's chest level. - ✔️✔️B.
encouraging coughing and repositioning


Primary preventions for the critical care client at risk for delirium are aimed at controlling
the:

1. amount of environmental noise.
2. quality of Stage II sleep each client gets.
3. level of catecholamine secretion.
4. quantity of prostaglandin produced. - ✔️✔️1. amount of environmental noise
An appropriate nursing intervention for the patient with delirium in the ICU is to:

1.use tranquilizers to establish normal sleep patterns.
2.identify the factors contributing to the patient's confusion and irritability.
3.silence all alarms, overhead paging, and conversations around the patient.
4.sedate the patient with psychotropic drugs to protect the patient from harmful
behaviors. - ✔️✔️2. identify the factors contributing to the patient's confusion and
irritability.

The critical care nurse recognizes that an ideal plan for family involvement includes:

1.a family member at the bedside at all times.
2.allowing family at the bedside at preset, brief intervals.
3.an individually devised plan with family involved with care and comfort measures.
4.restriction of visiting in the ICU because the environment is overwhelming to visitors. -
✔️✔️3. an individually devised plan with family involved with care and comfort
measures.

Delirium in ICU patients can hopefully be prevented by which nursing action?

1. Frequent reality orientation.
2. Turning off alarms on monitors to decrease noise.
3. Administration of adrenocorticosteroids.
4. Frequent changes in nurse/client assignment. - ✔️✔️1. Frequent reality orientation.

, Your client has just learned that he requires surgery and expresses worries about his
isolation
from God and church. Which nursing prevention would be taken first to respond to your
diagnosis of "spiritual distress related to surgery"?

1. Staying with the client and listening
2. Asking the client to join you in a prayer
3. Reading a selection from scripture
4. Calling the hospital chaplain - ✔️✔️1. Staying with the client and listening

Which of the following nursing preventions would support the critically ill client's
circadian rhythm cycle?

1. Putting a wall clock up in the client's room.
2. Encouraging normal bowel habits
3. Decreasing environmental noise
4. Dimming lights during normal sleep time. - ✔️✔️4. Dimming lights during normal
sleep time.

Critical care unit staff trying to reinforce the concept of family as client should eliminate
which
behavior?

1. Making food available 24 hours a day
2. Encouraging family to attend rounds
3. Providing accommodations for family to sleep overnight
4. Restricting visitors to certain numbers and hours. - ✔️✔️Restricting visitors to certain
numbers and hours.
Certification in critical care nursing by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses
indicates that a nurse:

1.has earned a master's degree in the field of providing advanced critical care nursing.
2.is an advanced practice nurse in the care of acutely ill patients.
3.may practice independently to provide symptom management for the critically ill.
4.has practiced in critical care and successfully completed a test of critical care
knowledge. - ✔️✔️4. has practiced in critical care and successfully completed a test of
critical care knowledge.


Several large nursing research studies have examined the families of critically ill
patients. Which was NOT considered one of the primary needs of these families?

1. Competent and careful nursing care
2. Assurances of the future
3. Information regarding the patient and care
4. Access to the patient - ✔️✔️2. Assurances of the future

The benefits of buying summaries with Stuvia:

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Guaranteed quality through customer reviews

Stuvia customers have reviewed more than 700,000 summaries. This how you know that you are buying the best documents.

Quick and easy check-out

Quick and easy check-out

You can quickly pay through credit card or Stuvia-credit for the summaries. There is no membership needed.

Focus on what matters

Focus on what matters

Your fellow students write the study notes themselves, which is why the documents are always reliable and up-to-date. This ensures you quickly get to the core!

Frequently asked questions

What do I get when I buy this document?

You get a PDF, available immediately after your purchase. The purchased document is accessible anytime, anywhere and indefinitely through your profile.

Satisfaction guarantee: how does it work?

Our satisfaction guarantee ensures that you always find a study document that suits you well. You fill out a form, and our customer service team takes care of the rest.

Who am I buying these notes from?

Stuvia is a marketplace, so you are not buying this document from us, but from seller ACADEMICMATERIALS. Stuvia facilitates payment to the seller.

Will I be stuck with a subscription?

No, you only buy these notes for $7.99. You're not tied to anything after your purchase.

Can Stuvia be trusted?

4.6 stars on Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

64670 documents were sold in the last 30 days

Founded in 2010, the go-to place to buy study notes for 15 years now

Start selling

Recently viewed by you

Exam (elaborations) ·

(0)

Limiting Reactants Gizmos Answer Key Questions Fully Solved.

Exam (elaborations) ·

(0)

ATLS Post Test 2023 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST UPDATES BRAND NEW!!!

Exam (elaborations) ·

(0)

Biology 1100 Final Exam Study Guide – 99 Questions and Answers

Exam (elaborations) ·

(0)

Nutrition and physical fitness Final Exam Questions With Solutions

Exam (elaborations) ·

(1)

Juniper JNCIA-Junos JN0-104 Exam Questions and Answers latest 2023

Exam (elaborations) ·

(0)

NURS 3210 Pharmacology- Exam 1 questions with correct answers

Summary ·

(0)

NS 320 STUDY GUIDE- EXAM III:Dr. Rice: Chamberlain College of Nursing

Summary ·

(1)

Samenvatting colleges en boek Informatie & Kennismanagement

Package deal ·

(0)

PC707 Bundled Exams with Complete Solution | Verified Answers | 2024
$7.99
  • (0)
Add to cart
Added