Cmc aacn practice - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

While caring for a patient with an IABP at 3:1, the nurse notes: A. decreasing urine output as well as increasing BUN and CR levels; the nurse should increase timing to 2:1 B. absent pulses in the proximal extremity; the nurse should apply pressure at the insertion site. C. blood in the IABP tubing; the nurse should disconnect the balloon catheter from the IABP. D. blood oozing from the insertion site; the nurse should anticipate the need for an emergency fasciotomy. A. incorrect. d...

Critical care nursing: Focus of the critical care nurse: Variety of settings (ICU): American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Vision: Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM): Purpose of Critical Care Certification CC Certification is based on Concerned with human responses to life-threatening problems, such as trau- ma, major surgery, or complications of illness. -can be a physiologic or a psychologic Includes patient's and the family's re- sponses to illness and involve...

CCRN Study questions and Answers from AACN/ CERTIFICATION REVIEW: Latest Study GuideSession Number 409 CERTIFICATION REVIEW: Questions, Answers, Rationales, Strategy Content Description In response to frequent requests for more practice with sample questions and answers, this session will be dedicated to fulfilling that request. We will present sample questions and include a discussion of rationale for correct and incorrect answers. Strategies for clues to correct answers will also be given. Sam...