NR 341 COMPLEX ADULT HEALTH
Exam One
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14
This blueprint is not inclusive of all content which may be on the exam.
Chapter 1 Overview of Critical Care Nursing
• Definition of critical care nursing
• Evolution of critical care
• Professional organizations
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NR 341 COMPLEX ADULT HEALTH
Exam One
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 14
This blueprint is not inclusive of all content which may be on the exam.
Chapter 1 Overview of Critical Care Nursing
• Definition of critical care nursing
• Evolution of critical care
• Professional organizations
o American association of critical-care nurses
o Society of critical care medicine
o Other professional organizations
• Certification
• Standards
• Critical care nurse characteristics
• Quality and safety emphasis
• Evidence-based practice
• Healthy work environment
o Communication
o Collaboration
• Other trends and issues
Chapter 2 Patient and Family Response to the Critical Care Experience
• Introduction
• The critical care environment
• The critically ill patient
o Discharge from critical care and quality of life after critical care
o Geriatric concerns
• Family members of the critically ill patient
o Family assessment
o Family needs
o Communication
o Visitation
o Family presence during procedures and resuscitation
o Practice alerts
Chapter 3 Ethical and Legal Issues in Critical Care Nursing
• Introduction
• Ethical obligations and nurse advocacy
• Ethical decision making
• Ethical principles
, o Creating an ethical environment
• Increasing nurses’ involvement in ethical decision making
• Selected ethical topics in critical care
o Informed consent
▪ Elements of informed consent
o Decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment
▪ Cardiopulmonary resuscitation decisions
▪ Withholding or withdrawing life support
o End-of-life issues
▪ Patient self-determination act
▪ Advance directives
o Organ and tissue transplantation
Chapter 4 End-of-Life Care in the Critical Care Unit
• Introduction
o Effects on nurses and the healthcare team
• Dimensions of end-of-life care
o Palliative care
o Communication and conflict resolution
o Withholding, limiting, or withdrawing therapy
▪ Ventilator withdrawal
▪ Other commonly withheld therapies
▪ Hospice referral
o Emotional and psychological care of the patient and family
o Caregiver organizational support
• Culturally competent end-of-life care
Chapter 5 Comfort and Sedation
• Introduction
• Definitions of pain and anxiety
• Predisposing factors to pain and anxiety
• Physiology of pain and anxiety
o Pain
o Anxiety
• Positive effects of pain and anxiety
• Negative effects of pain and anxiety
o Physical effects
o Psychological effects
• Assessment
o Pain measurement tools
o Pain measurement tools for nonverbal patients
o Anxiety and sedation measurement tools
▪ Sedation scales
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