A Patient's Medication Order Indicates That He Is to Receive

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient's medication order indicates that he is to receive a dose of cosyntropin (Cortrosyn) . The nurse is aware that this drug is used to diagnose which condition?

• A) Adrenocortical insufficiency
• B) Diabetes insipidus
• C) Myasthenia gravis
• D) Pituitary dwarfism

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Definitions:

Posterior Probability

The probability of a hypothesis or event occurring given the evidence or data observed.

Prior Probability

The probability of an event before new evidence is considered, used in Bayesian statistics as a part of updating the probability based on new information.

Posterior Probability

is the probability of the hypotheses given the observed data, calculated using Bayes' theorem.

Prior Probability

The likelihood of an event occurring before new evidence is taken into account.