MS Flashcards
responsible for building up nursing competencies in the ICU entity. He / She contributes to continuous improvement in critical care nursing through staff and clients education and uphold quality nursing guidelines on patient care through clinical research and refinement of ICU Standards.
Nurse Specialist
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Outcome Specialist
Nurse Specialist
The framework of critical care nursing is a
Critical
ICU
Evidence-Based Practice
Complex
Complex
Goals of Critical Care Nursing include the following: (SATA)
A. to promote optimal delivery of safe and quality care to the critically ill patients and their families by providing highly individualized care so that the physiological dysfunction as well as the psychological stress in the ICU are under control
B. To care for the critically ill patients with a holistic approach, considering the patient’s biological, psychological, cultural and spiritual dimensions regardless of diagnosis or clinical setting.
C. To use relevant and up-to-date knowledge, caring attitude and clinical skills, supported by appropriate technology for the prevention, early detection and treatment of complications to facilitate recovery.
D. To promote professional competence based on a broad base of knowledge and experience through continuous education and evidence-based research.
E. To provide palliative care to the critically ill patients in situations where their health status is progressing to unavoidable death, and to help the patients and families go through their painful sufferings.
A, B, C, E
ensure achievement of quality and cost-effectiveness in the delivery of patient care. Some critical care units have adopted clinical pathways (e.g., Critical Pathways, Protocols, Algorithms and Orders) in the management of specific diseases such as Acute Myocardial Infarction and Cardio- thoracic Surgeries
Nurse Specialist
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Outcome Specialist
Outcome Specialist
The Working Group members is/are
A. Advance Clinical Practitioner
B. clinical nurse Specialist, nurse Consultant and nurse
managers.
C. Outcome Specialist
D. CCRN
B clinical nurse Specialist, nurse Consultant and nurse
managers.
The focus of care for the critically ill patient is
Critical Approach
Holistic Approach
Bio-psycho
NOTA
Holistic Approach
in the critical care unit takes lead in developing evidence-based practices to meet changing clinical needs and facilitates patient care processes across professional and organizational boundaries.
Nurse Specialist
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Outcome Specialist
Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Level IIl ICU is best define as: (SATA)
A. capable of providing immediate resuscitation for the critically ill and short term cardio-respiratory support because the patients are at risk of deterioration.
B. Has a major role in monitoring and preventing complications in “at risk” medical and surgical patients.
C. Should be capable of providing a high standard of general critical care for patients who are stepping down from higher levels of care or requiring single organ support/support post-operatively.
D. Capable of providing sustainable support for mechanical ventilation, renal replacement therapy, invasive hemodynamic monitoring and equipment for critically ill patients of various specialties such as medicine, surgery, trauma, neurosurgery, vascular surgery.
E. Is a tertiary referral unit, capable of managing all aspects of critical care medicine (This does not only include the management of patients requiring advanced respiratory support but also patients with multi-organ failure);
F. Has a medical director with specialist critical / intensive care qualification and a duty specialist available exclusively to the unit and medical staff with an appropriate level of experience present in the unit at all times
E, F
Nurse Karen is doing a a research study on nosocomial infection in the ICU, she found out that using gloves multiple times contributes in the increase number of cross contamination trough the use of culture media. Nurse karen is doing a systematic investigation known as?
Quasi-Experimentation
Cross Correlational Study
Evidence Base Research
All of the above fit the description
Evidence Base Research
At the forefront of critical care science and technology, critical care nurses maintain
A. .provide high level of patient care which includes patient and family education, health promotion and rehabilitation.
B. based on a broad base of knowledge.
C. continuous education and evidence-based research
D. professional competence based on a broad base of knowledge and experience through continuous education and evidence-based research.
D.
collaboration with other health care team members critical care nurses
A. provide high level of patient care which includes patient and family education, health promotion and rehabilitation,
B. based on a broad base of knowledge
C. continuous education and evidence-based research
D. NOTA
A
The CCNAPI Core Competencies of a Critical Care Nurse are stated according to the,
A. levels of expected behavior defining the actual knowledge, skills and abilities in the practice of critical care by a nursing professional.
B. respond to this mission and commitment, a PRC-BON Working Group in Developing the Nursing Specialty Framework.
C. committed to provide need-driven, effective and efficient specialty nursing care services of high standard and at international level within the obtainable resources.
D. NOTA
A.
physiological focus has been categorized under bodily point functional systems such as (SATA)
pulmonary system
cardiovascular system
renal system
neurological system
Metabolic System
Integumentary System
Trauma
pulmonary system
cardiovascular system
renal system
neurological system
trauma
The critically ill patient should receive comfort and provided privacy in a highly
technological environment
Safe environment
Quality care environmet
NOTA
technological environment
The critical care nursing practice is based on a
scientific body of knowledge
standards
Evidence-Based Practice
guiding the critical care
scientific body of knowledge
