INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL CARE NURSING Flashcards
Type of Critical Care Practice Pattern wherein an intensivist is the physician on record for ICU patients.
Closed Units
Beneficence and Avoidance to Injury belongs to which “C” of Critical Care Nursing?
Carefulness
This is an ICU Model Care wherein an intensivist coordinate with another physician to assist in critical care.
Consultant Intensivist
He created a special three-bed unit for critically ill postoperative neurosurgical patients in 1923.
Dr. Walter E Dandy
On what year did almost all hospitals have a recovery unit attached to their operating rooms?
1960
Which of the following is an element of Psychological & Social Examination Assessment?
Emotional Health
A good Intensive Care Unit:
A. Has full time intensivist
B. Has bedside nurses with Master‘s Degree
C. Is equipped with protocol and policies
D. All options are correct
D. All options are correct
In an Intensive Care Unit, beds should be __ feet away from the head wall.
2 feet
This is a principle of critical care nursing wherein one has to foster partnership to ensure quality care in the CCU.
A. Collaboration
B. Anticipation
C. Communication
A. Collaboration
In a level 1 critical care unit, nurse patient ratio should be:
A. 1:2
B. 1:1
C. 1:3
C. 1:3
The Coronary Care Unit started operation, followed by emergence of specialized ICU’s
A. 1965
B. 1960
C. 2000
D. 1950
A. 1965
Critical care nursing has totally gone digitalized with the presence of mechanically operated ventilators, much smaller, more mobile, and more user-friendly.
A. 2000
B. 1950
C. 1960
D. 1965
D. 2000
First Principle in Critical Care
Anticipation
Critical Care started to bloom.
1950
“All necessary equipment and supplies are functional”
A. Early Detection
B. Crisis Intervention
C. Anticipation
D. Prevention of Infection
C. Anticipation
Rendered to patients with unstable clinical conditions
A. CRITICALLY ILL CLIENT
B. CRITICAL CARE NURSING
C. CRITICAL CARE NURSE
D. CRITICAL CARE UNIT
B. CRITICAL CARE NURSING
Shared co-managed care between ICU staff and physician.
A. Open Unit
B. Transition Unit
C. Closed Unit
D. All options are correct
B. Transition Unit
Prolonged Stay and Severity if Illness could be minimized if managed well.
A. Early Detection
B. Prevention of Infection
C. Crisis Intervention
D. Anticipation
B. Prevention of Infection
Prognosis depends on this principle.
A. Prevention of Infection
B. Early Detection
C. Anticipation
D. Crisis Intervention
B. Early Detection
Critical Care Practice Patterns
A. Open Unit
B. All options are correct
C. Closed Unit
D. Transition Unit
B. All options are correct
Intensivist is the physician on record.
A. Transition Unit
B. Closed Unit
C. Open Unit
D. All options are correct
B. Closed Unit
Time when modern medical advancement was present.
A. 1965
B. 2000
C. 1960
D. 1950
B. 2000
Any attending physician can be the physician of record.
A. Closed Unit
B. Transition Unit
C. Open Unit
D. All options are correct
C. Open Unit
Nurse Patient Ratio is 1:2
A. Level 3
B. Level 2
C. Level 1
B. Level 2
Assisting the patients to express fears
A. Prevention of Infection
B. Anticipation
C. Crisis Intervention
D. Early Detection
C. Crisis Intervention
More observation, or intervention, single failing organ or postoperative care.
A. Level 1
B. Level 3
C. Level 2
C. Level 2
In 1950s to 1960s, what is the most common diagnosis?
A. DM
B. ARF
C. CVD
D. MI
C. CVD
Requires more intensive and careful nursing care
A. CRITICALLY ILL CLIENT
B. CRITICAL CARE NURSE
C. CRITICAL CARE UNIT
D. CRITICAL CARE NURSING
A. CRITICALLY ILL CLIENT
Requires extensive knowledge and continual desire to learn
A. CRITICAL CARE UNIT
B. CRITICAL CARE NURSE
C. CRITICAL CARE NURSING
D. CRITICALLY ILL CLIENT
B. CRITICAL CARE NURSE
