NR 340 Week 3 Exam One Essay Assignment

Critical Care

• Ethical Principles
• CC Nurse Stressors
• Sources of stress for patients and families
• Communication with critically ill patients
• Pain Management
• Anxiety
• Delirium: causes and assessment.
• Sedative Agents
• Nutrition support: assessment; complications of tube feedings; parenteral nutrition: complications
• Mechanisms of Injury in Trauma
• Levels of Trauma Care
• Assessment Priorities
• Triage process and levels of care
• Facial Fractures
• Uncomplicated Rib/Sternal Fractures
• Flail Chest
• Pneumothorax
• Open Pneumothorax
• Tension Pneumothorax
• Hemothorax
• Chest tubes
• Hemorrhagic Shock Assessment and treatment
• Cardiac Tamponade
• Abdominal Trauma (Blunt)
• Abdominal Trauma (Penetrating)
• Kidney Trauma
• Organ Donation Determination
• Maintaining Organ Viability
• Contraindications to being a transplant recipient
• Rejection
• Adverse effects of immunosuppression
• Signs & symptoms of organ rejection
• INOROUT during CPR
• Determining brain death
• Withdrawing care: terminal weaning
• Medications used at EOL
• Family support

RESPIRATORY

• O2-CO2 exchange
• Compliance
• Resistance
• Ventilation/Perfusion Relationships
• Calculating Shunt
• Lung Measures
• Abnormal Breathing Patterns
• Breath Sounds
• Oxygenation
• Oxyhemoglobin Curve Changes
• ABG interpretation
• Respiratory Acidosis
• Metabolic Acidosis
• Respiratory Alkalosis
• Metabolic Alkalosis
• Oxygen supplementation methods
• Endotracheal Tubes
• Tracheostomy
• Ventilator Settings
• Ventilator Modes
• Ventilator Alarms
• Complications of Ventilation
• Weaning
• Acute Respiratory Failure (ARF)
• ARDS
• Pulmonary Embolism