Treats the human response to life-threatening problems.
What is CC Nursing
100
Designed for efficient, lifesaving interventions, yet produces stress and anxiety.
What is the CC environment.
100
Change in patient condition; emotionally charged; Confusion; deviation from customary practice
What are clues to an ethical dilemma.
100
Situation in which therapy or interventions will not provide a foreseeable possibility of improvement in the patient’s health condition, or a lack of attainable goals of care.
What is medical futility.
100
Leads to complications such as sleep deprivation, agitation, and PTSD.
What is pain.
200
The professional organization that supports and represents critical care nurses.
What is American Association of Critical care Nurses.
200
Light, noise, loss of privacy, emotional and physical pain all result in this.
What is sensory overload.
200
Failure to ensure patient care is arranged with another RN, including breaks and lunch.
What is abandonment.
200
Designed to relieve symptoms that negatively affect patient or family.
Should be implemented with ALL patients, not just the dying
What is palliative care.
200
Disease, procedures, monitoring devices, nursing care, trauma.
What are predisposing factors of pain.
300
Serve as guidelines for clinical practice.
What is Standards of practice delineating the nursing process.
300
This is associated with high levels of noise in the CC unit.
What is sleep disruptions.
300
The patients' right to initiate advance directives and to consent to, or refuse treatment is included in this.
What is The Patient Self-determination Act.
300
Discontinuation of life-sustaining therapies in a terminally ill or persistently vegetative patient
What is withdrawal of treatment.
300
Inability to communicate, noise, light, excess stimulation.
What are predisposing factors of anxiety.
400
Needs of patient and family drive practice.
What is the Synergy Model for Practice.
400
Pain, thirst, anxiety, lack of control, fear, unable to communicate, lack of family, thoughts of dying, physical restraint.
What is patients' recall about CC.
400
Living will and durable power of attorney are examples of this.
What are Advance Directives.
400
Failure to initiate life-sustaining therapies in a terminally ill or persistently vegetative patient.
What is withholding of treatment.
400
These are the most abundant pain receptors.
What are nocioceptors.
500
Technical competence; Relationship building; Ability to multitask and set priorities
What is CC Nurse characteristics.
500
This population is at greater risk for increase mortality, functional decline and decreased health-related quality of life.
What is the geriatric population.
500
This results in a decrease in litigation related to CC treatment.
What is family presence during resuscitation.
500
Provide anticipatory guidance to patient and family.
Anticipate distressing symptoms and medicate to relieve symptoms.
Titrate therapy to relieve emotional and physical distress.
What are nursing interventions during withdrawal or withholding of treatment.
500
Drug of choice for treating delirium in a CC area.