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TEST BANK For Urden, Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management
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Test Bank For Critical Care Nursing: Diagnosis and Management 8th Edition By Linda D. Urden, Kathleen M. Stacy & Mary E. Lough ISBN 9780323447522 Chapter 1-41 | Complete Guide A+
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TEST BANK FOR: CRITICAL CARE NURSING: DIAGNOSIS AND MANAGEMENT, 8TH EDITION BY LINDA D. URDEN, KATHLEEN M. STACY & MARY E. LOUGH
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Critical Care Nursing 8th Edition Urden Test BankCritical Care Nursing 8th Edition Urden Test Bank
Chapter 01: Critical Care Nursing Practice
Urden: Critical Care Nursing, 8th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. During World War II, what type of wards were developed to care for critically injured
patients?
a. Intensive care
b. Triage
c. Shock
d. Postoperative
ANS: C
During World War II, shock wards were established to care for critically injured patients.
Triage wards establish the order in which a patient is seen or treated upon arrival to a hospital.
Postoperative wards were developed in 1900 and later evolved into intensive care units.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 1
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
2. What type of practitioner has a broad depth of specialty knowledge and expertise and manages
complex clinical and system issues?
a. Registered nurses
b. Advanced practice nurses
c. Clinical nurse leaders
d. Intensivists
ANS: B
Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their
specialty area and manage complex clinical and systems issues. Intensivists are medical
practitioners who manage the critical ill patient. Registered nurses (RNs) are generally direct
care providers. Clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) generally do not manage system issues.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 2
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
3. What type of practitioner is instrumental in ensuring care that is evidence based and that
safety programs are in place?
a. Clinical nurse specialist
b. Advanced practice nurse
c. Registered nurses
d. Nurse practitioners
ANS: A
, Critical Care Nursing 8th Edition Urden Test Bank
Clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) serve in specialty roles that use their clinical, teaching,
research, leadership, and consultative abilities. They are instrumental in ensuring that care is
evidence based and that safety programs are in place. Advanced practice nurses (APNs) have
a broad depth of knowledge and expertise in their specialty area and manage complex clinical
and systems issues. Registered nurses are generally direct care providers. Nurse practitioners
(NPs) manage direct clinical care of groups of patients.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 2
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
4. Which professional organization administers critical care certification exams for registered
nurses?
a. State Board of Registered Nurses
b. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist
c. Society of Critical Care Medicine
d. American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
ANS: D
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) administers certification exams for
registered nurses. The State Board of Registered Nurses (SBON) does not administer
certification exams. National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) does not
administer certification exams. Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) does not
administer nursing certification exams for registered nurses.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 3
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and EffecN eR
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5. Emphasis is on human integrity and stresses the theory that the body, mind, and spirit are
interdependent and inseparable. This statement describes which methodology of care?
a. Holistic care
b. Individualized care
c. Cultural care
d. Interdisciplinary care
ANS: A
Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and spirit are
interdependent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the uniqueness of each
patient’s preferences, condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status. Cultural diversity in
health care is not a new topic, but it is gaining emphasis and importance as the world becomes
more accessible to all as the result of increasing technologies and interfaces with places and
peoples. Interdisciplinary care is care among a variety of health care professionals with the
patient’s health as the common goal.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 4
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
6. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has developed short directives
that can be used as quick references for clinical use that are known as
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a. Critical Care Protocol.
b. Practice Policies.
c. Evidence-Based Research.
d. Practice Alerts.
ANS: D
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) has promulgated several
evidence-based practice summaries in the form of “Practice Alerts.” Evidence-based nursing
practice considers the best research evidence on the care topic along with clinical expertise of
the nurse and patient preferences. Critical care protocol and practice policies are established
by individual institutions.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 3
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
7. What type of therapy is an option to conventional treatment?
a. Alternative
b. Holistic
c. Complementary
d. Individualized
ANS: A
The term alternative denotes that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is
considered conventional treatment of a condition or state. The term complementary was
proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement or support conventional
treatments. Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body, mind, and
spirit are interdependent and N
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each patient’s preferences, condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: p. 4
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
8. Prayer, guided imagery, and massage are all examples of what type of treatment?
a. Alternative therapy
b. Holistic care
c. Complementary care
d. Individualized care
ANS: C
The term complementary was proposed to describe therapies that can be used to complement
or support conventional treatments. Spirituality, prayer, guided imagery, massage, and
animal-assisted therapy are all examples of complementary care. The term alternative denotes
that a specific therapy is an option or alternative to what is considered conventional treatment
of a condition or state. Holistic care focuses on human integrity and stresses that the body,
mind, and spirit are interdependent and inseparable. Individualized care recognizes the
uniqueness of each patient’s preferences, condition, and physiologic and psychosocial status.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: p. 4
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: N/A TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
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9. What is the systematic decision-making model used by nurses termed?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing evaluations
d. Nursing process
ANS: D
The nursing process is a systematic decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear. An
essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health
condition. Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health
alteration. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs formally at
intervals designated in the outcome criteria.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Understanding REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
10. What is a health condition primarily resolved by nursing interventions or therapies called?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: A
An essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health
condition. Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health
alteration. Evaluation of attaiN Rnt SoIf tNhGeTexBp.ecO
nmeU Ct edMpat i ent outcomes occurs formally at
intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic
decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
11. Designing therapeutic activities that move a patient from one state of health to another is an
example of which of the following?
a. Nursing diagnosis
b. Nursing interventions
c. Nursing outcomes
d. Nursing process
ANS: B
Nursing interventions constitute the treatment approach to an identified health alteration. An
essential and distinguishing feature of any nursing diagnosis is that it describes a health
condition. Evaluation of attainment of the expected patient outcomes occurs formally at
intervals designated in the outcome criteria. The nursing process is a systematic
decision-making model that is cyclic, not linear.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Remembering REF: n/a
OBJ: Nursing Process Step: General TOP: Critical Care Nursing Practice
MSC: NCLEX: Safe and Effective Care Environment
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