Deck 1: Emergency Nursing in Australia and New Zealand

Question 1

When were designated emergency departments first established in Australia?

A) 1990s
B) 2012
C) 1960s
D) 1970s

Answer 1

1970s

Question 2

What must a facility provide to be designated as an emergency department?

A) Specialist medical officer, nurse cover, on-site diagnostic services and intensive care and surgical operating services
B) Specialised medical cover, Intensive Care, on-site diagnostic services
C) Specialist medical cover and nurse cover
D) Specialised medical cover, nurse cover, onsite diagnostic services

Answer 2

Specialist medical officer, nurse cover, on-site diagnostic services and intensive care and surgical operating services

Question 3

The following are commonly used to compared ED performance EXCEPT:

A) Triage code allocation and seen by doctor times
B) Patient case-mix and mortality
C) presentation rates
D) Nursing education levels

Answer 3

Nursing education levels

Question 4

What is the definition of access block?

A) A patient who is ready to go to a ward bed, but remains in the ED for longer than 8 hours because of the doctors not completing their paperwork
B) Patients awaiting a bed inside the ED but remains in the waiting room because there is no bed available
C) A patient who is ready to go to a ward bed, but remains in the ED for longer than 8 hours because of the lack of an inpatient bed
D) Ambulances unable to offload their patients due to no beds being available in the ED

Question 5

How many CPD hours must nurses Australian and New Zealand nurses complete each year for registration purposes?

A) 14 CPD hours
B) 20 CPD hours
C) None
D) 10 CPD hours

Question 6

Medically endorsed patient management guidelines allow emergency nurses to perform extended activities including:

A) Assessments, interventions and Diagnosing
B) Assessments, investigations, interventions
C) Assessments, investigations, discharges
D) Assessments, investigations, admissions

Question 7

What are the primary distinguishing features of emergency nursing?

A) Caring for patients with undifferentiated diagnoses across the life span in a time-pressured environment
B) Caring for patients with clear diagnosis across the life span
C) Caring for admitted patients across the life span
D) Caring for patients who may or not be admitted

Question 8

What challenges impact on the delivery of quality patient care?

A) Nurses not having adequate training, overcrowding, decreasing patient acuity
B) Overcrowding, staff retention, poor doctor training decreasing patient acuity
C) Overcrowding, staff retention, access block, increasing patient acuity
D) Overcrowding, staff retention, access block, decreasing patient acuity