NR 340 Week 3 Evolve Questions & Answers Essay

Overview of CC

• Critical Care Nursing
• Trends and Issues
• Focus on Quality and Safety
• National Patient Safety Goals
• Harms Targeted for Reduction
• Communication
• Other Trends and Issues
• The Critical Care
• Psychosocial Support (HIGHEST CONCERN)
• Geriatric Concerns
• Ethical Principles
• Nurse Involvement in Ethical Decision Making
• Selected Issues
• Concerns of the Critically Ill

Respiratory Alterations

• Nursing
• Respiratory Anatomy
• Physiology of Breathing
• Terminology
• Volumes and Capacities
• Respiratory Assessment
• Respiratory Terms
• Interpretation of ABGs
• Compensation
• Noninvasive Assessment
• Oxygen Administration
• Oxygen Delivery Devices
• Airway Management
• Endotracheal Intubation
• Endotracheal Suctioning
• Tracheostomy
• Indications for Ventilation
• Ventilator Settings
• Data to Monitor during Mechanical Ventilation
• Modes of Mechanical Ventilation
• Noninvasive Positive-Pressure Ventilation (NPPV)
• Alarms
• Infections r/t MV
• Ventilator-Associated Events
• Weaning
• Extubation

Acute Respiratory Failure (ARF)

• Failure of Oxygenation
• Assessment of Respiratory Failure
• Interventions for Respiratory Failure
• Medical Management
• Respiratory Failure Concerns

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

• Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)
• ARF: Pulmonary Embolus (PE)
• Dysrhythmias
• Pacemaker Cells and Automaticity
• Cardiac Action Potential
• Cardiac Conduction Pathway
• Inherent Rates
• 12-Lead ECG
• Cardiac Monitoring
• ECG Graph Paper
• Normal ECG Tracing (insert picture)
• Steps to Interpreting an EKG
• Basic Dysrhythmias
• Ventricular Dysrhythmias

Electrical Pacemakers

• Defibrillation vs. Cardioversion
• Dysrhythmia Management
• Defibrillation
• Transcutaneous Pacemaker