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UNIT ONE: FOUNDATIONS IN CRITICAL CARE NURSING
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1. Caring for the Critically Ill Patient
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2. Ethical and Legal Issues
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3. Facilitating Care Transitions
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UNIT TWO: COMMON PROBLEMS IN CRITICAL CARE
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4. Psychosocial and Spiritual Considerations
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5. Nutritional Alterations and Management
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6. The Older Adult
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7. Pain and Pain Management
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8. Sedation and Delirium Management
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9. Palliative and End-of-Life Care
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UNIT THREE: CARDIOVASCULAR ALTERATIONS
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10. Cardiovascular Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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11. Cardiovascular Disorders
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12. Cardiovascular Therapeutic Management
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UNIT FOUR: PULMONARY ALTERATIONS
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13. Pulmonary Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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14. Pulmonary Disorders
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15. Pulmonary Therapeutic Management
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UNIT FIVE: NEUROLOGICAL ALTERATIONS
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16. Neurological Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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17. Neurologic Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT SIX: KIDNEY ALTERATIONS
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18. Kidney Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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19. Kidney Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT SEVEN: GASTROINTESTINAL ALTERATIONS
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20. Gastrointestinal Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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21. Gastrointestinal Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT EIGHT: ENDOCRINE ALTERATIONS
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22. Endocrine Clinical Assessment and Diagnostic Procedures
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23. Endocrine Disorders and Therapeutic Management
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UNIT NINE: MULTISYSTEM ALTERATIONS
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24. Trauma
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26. Shock, Sepsis, and Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
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27. Hematological and Oncological Emergencies
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,Chapter 01: Critical Care Nursing Practice
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Urden: Critical Care Nursing, 9th
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1. During World War II, what type of wards were developed to care for criticallyi
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b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
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During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients.
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Triage wards establish the order in which a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hos
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pital. Postoperative wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive careunit
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s.
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2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise an
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dmanages complex clinical and system issues?
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d.Intensivists
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specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical pr
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actitioners who manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are generally direct
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care providers. Clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
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3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based and
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that safety programs are in place?
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ialist b. Advancedprac
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tice nurse c.
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d. Nurse practitioners
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, Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching, res
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earch, leadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that careis e
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vidence based and that safety programs are in place. Advanced practice nurses (APNs)hav
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a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex c
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linical and systems issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nursepr
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actitioners (NPs) manage direct clinical care of groups of patients.
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4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams forr
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Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for registered nurses. The State Bo
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ard of Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administercertification exams. National Asso
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ciation of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) does not administer certification exams. S
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ociety of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) does not administer nursing certification exams
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for registered nurses.
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5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and spiri
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tare interdependent and inseparable. This statement describes which methodology of
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erdependent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each patient’s
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preferences, condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status. Cultural diversityin
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health care is not a new topic, but it is gaining emphasis and importance as the world bec
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omes more accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces withplac
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es and peoples. Interdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care professionals
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with the patient’s health as the common goal.
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