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• Critical Care -✓✓This is the direct delivery of medical care for a critically ill or injured
patient.
• Critical -✓✓This is the condition, an illness or injury acutrelu impair one or more vital
organ or system.
• Highly complex decision making; coronary (heart) care unit, intensive care unit, and
emergency department -✓✓Critical care involves ----- and is usually, but NOT always
provided in critical care area such as ---, ---, or an ---.
• Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines (CCNAP) -✓✓They are the
organization of critical care nurses that is conscious of its responsiility for the promotion
of man's health.
• Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines -✓✓What does CCNAP mean?
• 1. Holistic Approach of Caring in Patients
2. Views Patient as Unique Individual with Dignity and Worth
3. Patient should receive Comfort and Privacy in a Highly Technological Environment
4. Nurses should provide high level of patient care
5. Family and Patient should participate is emphasized to achieve holistic care process
6. Critical Nurses should maintain professional competence based on a broad
knowledge and experience -✓✓What are the 6 Nursing Philosophies of CCNAP?
• Intensive Care -✓✓is a complex specialty developed to serve the diverse heath care
need of patient and the family with actual life threatening conditions
• critically ill patient , critical care nurse, and the critical care environment -✓✓The scope
of critical care nursing is defined by the dynamic interaction of the ---, ---, and --- to bring
optimal patient outcomes.
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses -✓✓What does AACN mean?
• Critically Ill Patient -✓✓This is defined as the patient who are at high risk or life
threatening problems.
• 1. Resiliency
2. Vulnerability
, 3. Stability
4. Complexity
5. Predictability
6. Resource Availability
7. Participation in care
8. Participation in decision making -✓✓What are the 8 characteristics of a critically ill
patient?
• Resiliency -✓✓This characteristics is when "patient have the ability to bounce back
quickly after insult", Patients range along the continuum from being unable to mount a
response to having strong reserve.
• Vulnerability -✓✓This characteristic is when "susceptibility from actual to potential
stressor"
Patient range from fragile to being safe.
• Stability -✓✓This characteristic is when " the patient have the ability to maintain
equilibrium"
Patient vary from being high risk of death to stable and responsive to therapy
• Complexity -✓✓This characteristic is the "intricate entanglement of two or more
systems (body, family)
• Predictabiilty -✓✓This characteristic that allows one to foresee a certain course of
events or illness.
• Resource availability -✓✓This is characteristic means that the patient may have few of
the resource necessary for recovery available.
• Participation in care -✓✓This characteristic is when "extent to which patient and/or
family engage in care"
• Participation in decision making -✓✓This characteristic is when "the patient and/or
family engage in choosing courses of action"
• Critical Care Nurses -✓✓This are the registered nurses, trained and qualified to
practice critical care nursing.
• Critical Care Environment -✓✓This is constantly supports the interaction between the
critically ill patients, family and nurses to achieve desired patient outcomes.
meaning it entails available and accessible equipment and etc.
Questions and Answers (2026) | Full Test
Bank with Verified Solutions | Grade A+
• Critical Care -✓✓This is the direct delivery of medical care for a critically ill or injured
patient.
• Critical -✓✓This is the condition, an illness or injury acutrelu impair one or more vital
organ or system.
• Highly complex decision making; coronary (heart) care unit, intensive care unit, and
emergency department -✓✓Critical care involves ----- and is usually, but NOT always
provided in critical care area such as ---, ---, or an ---.
• Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines (CCNAP) -✓✓They are the
organization of critical care nurses that is conscious of its responsiility for the promotion
of man's health.
• Critical Care Nurses Association of the Philippines -✓✓What does CCNAP mean?
• 1. Holistic Approach of Caring in Patients
2. Views Patient as Unique Individual with Dignity and Worth
3. Patient should receive Comfort and Privacy in a Highly Technological Environment
4. Nurses should provide high level of patient care
5. Family and Patient should participate is emphasized to achieve holistic care process
6. Critical Nurses should maintain professional competence based on a broad
knowledge and experience -✓✓What are the 6 Nursing Philosophies of CCNAP?
• Intensive Care -✓✓is a complex specialty developed to serve the diverse heath care
need of patient and the family with actual life threatening conditions
• critically ill patient , critical care nurse, and the critical care environment -✓✓The scope
of critical care nursing is defined by the dynamic interaction of the ---, ---, and --- to bring
optimal patient outcomes.
• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses -✓✓What does AACN mean?
• Critically Ill Patient -✓✓This is defined as the patient who are at high risk or life
threatening problems.
• 1. Resiliency
2. Vulnerability
, 3. Stability
4. Complexity
5. Predictability
6. Resource Availability
7. Participation in care
8. Participation in decision making -✓✓What are the 8 characteristics of a critically ill
patient?
• Resiliency -✓✓This characteristics is when "patient have the ability to bounce back
quickly after insult", Patients range along the continuum from being unable to mount a
response to having strong reserve.
• Vulnerability -✓✓This characteristic is when "susceptibility from actual to potential
stressor"
Patient range from fragile to being safe.
• Stability -✓✓This characteristic is when " the patient have the ability to maintain
equilibrium"
Patient vary from being high risk of death to stable and responsive to therapy
• Complexity -✓✓This characteristic is the "intricate entanglement of two or more
systems (body, family)
• Predictabiilty -✓✓This characteristic that allows one to foresee a certain course of
events or illness.
• Resource availability -✓✓This is characteristic means that the patient may have few of
the resource necessary for recovery available.
• Participation in care -✓✓This characteristic is when "extent to which patient and/or
family engage in care"
• Participation in decision making -✓✓This characteristic is when "the patient and/or
family engage in choosing courses of action"
• Critical Care Nurses -✓✓This are the registered nurses, trained and qualified to
practice critical care nursing.
• Critical Care Environment -✓✓This is constantly supports the interaction between the
critically ill patients, family and nurses to achieve desired patient outcomes.
meaning it entails available and accessible equipment and etc.
