RLE Quiz

•A specialty focused on the care of unstable, chronically ill or post-surgical patients and those at risk from life-threatening diseases and injuries.

• critical care nurse

• intensive care unit

• emergency nurse

• hemodialysis nurse

CRITICAL CARE NURSE RESPONSIBILITIES (SATA)

• Assessing and treating patients

• Ordering diagnostic tests

• advocate

• manager

• educator

level of ICU with prolonged ventilation and management. Must have resident doctors, nurses and access to pathology and radiology

• level I

• level II

• level III

• level IV

(10 points) enumerate all ICU equipment and explain the function and indication.

12 rights of medication administration

Infectious organism prevention (4 points)

Redness at the tip of the catheter and along the vein

*Tenderness at the tip of device and above

*Vein hard on palpation

*pain

*warm

*swelling

*purulent discharges

• infiltration

• phlebitis

• thrombus

• ligament

Cool skin around site

*Discomfort

*Feeling of tightness at site

*Slower flow rate

*Swelling at and above IV site (may extend along entire limb)

* numbness

* Fluid leakage

* Presence of resistance

• extravasation

• infiltration

• air embolism

• phlebitis

blisters

pain

ulceration of the skin

redness

swelling

slower infusion rate

discomfort

• extravasation

• infiltration

• air embolism

• phlebitis

Crackles

*Discomfort

*Increased blood pressure

*Large positive fluid balance (intake is greater than output)

*Neck vein engorgement

*Respiratory distress

• air embolism

• edema

• fluid overload

• anasarca