Chapter 66: Nursing Management: Critical Care Test Bank MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A 68-year-old patient has been in the intensive care unit for 4 days and has a nursing diagnosis of disturbed sensory perception related to sleep deprivation. Which action should the nurse include in the plan of care? a. Administer prescribed sedatives or opioids at bedtime to promote sleep. b. Cluster nursing activities so that the patient has uninterrupted rest periods. c. Silence the alarms on the cardiac monitors to allow
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(2004‚ January). Caring-Inquiry for holistic nursing practice: Model for research and evidence-based practice. Advanced practice nursing eJournal‚ 4(4). Retrieved October 5‚ 2007 from http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/496363 Kollef‚ M. (2000). Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: The importance of initial empiric antibiotic selection. Infectious Medicine‚ 17(4). Retrieved October 5‚ 2007 from http:// www.medscape.com/viewarticle/410044?src=search Pierce‚ L. (2007). Evidence-Based practice in rehabilitation
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For the hospital reflection journal‚ I chose to discuss my experience in the place I could perceive myself working in during my nursing career – the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). My NICU hospital experience occurred on Sunday‚ March 26‚ 2017 at the Honor Health Scottsdale Shea center. My nurse and I were assigned to two premature infants – a 4-week-old female and an 8-week-old male. The infant I decided to do my assignment on was the 4-week-old female. She was born on 02/20/2017 at 25 weeks
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Pathology: Poliomyelitis I: Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure‚ but there are safe and effective vaccines. Therefore‚ the strategy to eradicate polio is based on preventing infection by immunizing every child to stop transmission and ultimately make the world polio free. However‚ my patient was born before the vaccine was created. She caught the disease as a child and had many problems related to the disease. It crossed her spine therefore she is crippled
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31 July 2016. MacIntosh‚ James. "Muscular Dystrophy / ALS Neurology / Neuroscience ALS: Causes‚ Symp- toms and Treatments." MediLexicon International Limited.‚ n.d. Web "Symptoms and Diagnosis." The ALS Association. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. "What Is a Ventilator?" - NHLBI‚ NIH.
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Roylott because Doctor Roylott was an extremely guilty man capable of murder. Addionially Sherlock Holmes was not guilty of killing Doctor Roylott because Sherlock Holmes could not have possibly predicted that Doctor Roylott would be sitting under the ventilator waiting for the swamp adder. Some people may say that Sherlock Holmes was guilty of killing Doctor Roylott because he forced the agitated snake back at Doctor Roylott‚ which than bit and killed Doctor Roylott. Although it is true that Sherlock
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Communication between interdisciplinary teams is important for successful implementation of critical pathways. Nurse Olivia Witte is responsible for the interdisciplinary team and needs to develop a critical pathway for ventilator-dependent patients who are being discharged to home with home healthcare. The critical thinking exercise regarding Nurse Witte provided insight to the importance of teamwork between departments and nursing. The purpose of this paper is to discus the problems with the development
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NVT2 Task 1 The nurse in the case study is faced with an ethical and professional‚ dilemma. How can she be an advocate for her patient Mr. E? Dr G. is proceeding on a course of action or plan of care that is directly contrary to the patients advance directive and his verbalized objections to the course of treatment proposed by the physician and that is concerning for her. There are multiple issues to consider. For the nurse‚ she needs to think about her code of ethics‚ her scope of practice
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Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas Anand Chatoorgoon University of Phoenix Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas are issues that all Intensive Care Units (ICUs) throughout the world have to face and address. In the Current Opinion in Critical Care‚ Vol 16‚ No 6‚ December 2010‚ p. 640‚ Dixon-Woods and Bosk‚ writing on the topic of “Death‚ dying and other ethical dilemmas” under the journal’s section of ‘Ethical‚ legal and organizational issues in the ICU’‚ have stated that “Recent
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Patients with Decreased Lung Compliance In the healthcare setting many clinicians are curious to know how airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) works. Many modes of ventilation have been developed throughout the years that focus on lung recruitment and allows for patients to breathe at a spontaneous rate. However‚ APRV is one of the many modes that concentrate on providing partial ventilatory assistance to patients with some form of respiratory failure. First‚ can APRV protect the lungs and
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