Introduction to Critical Care Nursing Updated
Study Guide Questions and Answers (2026) |
High-Yield Revision Pack | Grade A+
• Critical care nursing -✓✓concerned with human responses to life-threatening problems
such as trauma, major surgery or complications of illness
• 1. Health care facility
2. Critical care unit
3. Critical care nurse -✓✓3 elements of critical care nursing (H-C-C)
• health care facility -✓✓creates safety culture and quality environment that provides the
foundation of nursing practice
• critical care unit -✓✓incorporates the quality care framework within its policies and
processes such as the use of high performance check lists and closely monitors the
program score cards;
• critical care nurse -✓✓maintains professional competence through ongoing learning
and reflective practice
• 1950s -✓✓specialty of critical care has its roots in the year
• patient with polio -✓✓first case of disease admitted in ICU
• 1960s -✓✓what year recovery units discovered
• critical care nursing -✓✓reflects a holistic approach in caring with patients
• intensive care unit room -✓✓highly specialized environment, provides safe
environment for critical-ill patients
• 1. age group/ medical specialties
2. specialty programs -✓✓2 categories of critical care unit
• level 1 icu -✓✓high dependency ICU, Resuscitation, short term mechanical ventilation
and simple invasive cardiovascular monitoring for less than 24 hours. Nurse patient
ration is 1:3 and medical staff are not present in the unit all the time.
• Level II icu -✓✓Located in general hospitals, undertake more prolonged ventilation.
, Provides a high standard of general intensive care, including complex multi-system life
support. The Nurse Patient Ration is 1:2 and junior medical staff is available in the unit
all the time
• Level III ICU -✓✓These are tertiary referral unit for intensive care patients that
provides comprehensive critical care including complex multi-system life support for an
indefinite period. Nurse patient ratio is 1:1.
• Open Units -✓✓In this type of pattern, Any attending physician with hospital admitting
privileges can be the physician of record and direct ICU care
• Closed Model -✓✓The "intensivist" is the final common pathway for all medical
decision-making including the decision to admit or discharge patients.
• Transitional / Hybrid Model -✓✓Intensivists are locally present shared co-managed
care between ICU Staffs and private physicians. The ICU Staff is considered as the final
common pathway for orders and procedures.
• Headwall -✓✓The wall behind the head of a patient in an ICU, in which electrical, gas,
and equipment mounts are deployed
• Physiologic monitor -✓✓A piece of medical equipment that serves as a central
aggregation and display location for many medically significant physiologic variables
• Telemetry -✓✓Electronic transmission of medical data to a central analysis station
• Electrocardiography -✓✓Analysis and display of data regarding cardiac conduction
and rhythm
• Pulse oximetry -✓✓Photoelectric, noninvasive measurement of capillary oxygen levels
using light transmission
• Impedance pneumography -✓✓A technique by which respiratory rate is measured
using electrical changes between ECG leads induced by changes in intrathoracic air
volume during inspiration and expiration.
• Emergency power system -✓✓An electrical supply system in a hospital that is
automatically set to convert to generator power
• Transducer -✓✓A device for converting energy from one form to another, typically a
pressure wave to an electronic signal in the ICU, where fluid waves are measured and
displayed
• Infusion pump -✓✓A device that controls the administration of medications or fluids
Study Guide Questions and Answers (2026) |
High-Yield Revision Pack | Grade A+
• Critical care nursing -✓✓concerned with human responses to life-threatening problems
such as trauma, major surgery or complications of illness
• 1. Health care facility
2. Critical care unit
3. Critical care nurse -✓✓3 elements of critical care nursing (H-C-C)
• health care facility -✓✓creates safety culture and quality environment that provides the
foundation of nursing practice
• critical care unit -✓✓incorporates the quality care framework within its policies and
processes such as the use of high performance check lists and closely monitors the
program score cards;
• critical care nurse -✓✓maintains professional competence through ongoing learning
and reflective practice
• 1950s -✓✓specialty of critical care has its roots in the year
• patient with polio -✓✓first case of disease admitted in ICU
• 1960s -✓✓what year recovery units discovered
• critical care nursing -✓✓reflects a holistic approach in caring with patients
• intensive care unit room -✓✓highly specialized environment, provides safe
environment for critical-ill patients
• 1. age group/ medical specialties
2. specialty programs -✓✓2 categories of critical care unit
• level 1 icu -✓✓high dependency ICU, Resuscitation, short term mechanical ventilation
and simple invasive cardiovascular monitoring for less than 24 hours. Nurse patient
ration is 1:3 and medical staff are not present in the unit all the time.
• Level II icu -✓✓Located in general hospitals, undertake more prolonged ventilation.
, Provides a high standard of general intensive care, including complex multi-system life
support. The Nurse Patient Ration is 1:2 and junior medical staff is available in the unit
all the time
• Level III ICU -✓✓These are tertiary referral unit for intensive care patients that
provides comprehensive critical care including complex multi-system life support for an
indefinite period. Nurse patient ratio is 1:1.
• Open Units -✓✓In this type of pattern, Any attending physician with hospital admitting
privileges can be the physician of record and direct ICU care
• Closed Model -✓✓The "intensivist" is the final common pathway for all medical
decision-making including the decision to admit or discharge patients.
• Transitional / Hybrid Model -✓✓Intensivists are locally present shared co-managed
care between ICU Staffs and private physicians. The ICU Staff is considered as the final
common pathway for orders and procedures.
• Headwall -✓✓The wall behind the head of a patient in an ICU, in which electrical, gas,
and equipment mounts are deployed
• Physiologic monitor -✓✓A piece of medical equipment that serves as a central
aggregation and display location for many medically significant physiologic variables
• Telemetry -✓✓Electronic transmission of medical data to a central analysis station
• Electrocardiography -✓✓Analysis and display of data regarding cardiac conduction
and rhythm
• Pulse oximetry -✓✓Photoelectric, noninvasive measurement of capillary oxygen levels
using light transmission
• Impedance pneumography -✓✓A technique by which respiratory rate is measured
using electrical changes between ECG leads induced by changes in intrathoracic air
volume during inspiration and expiration.
• Emergency power system -✓✓An electrical supply system in a hospital that is
automatically set to convert to generator power
• Transducer -✓✓A device for converting energy from one form to another, typically a
pressure wave to an electronic signal in the ICU, where fluid waves are measured and
displayed
• Infusion pump -✓✓A device that controls the administration of medications or fluids
