A Client Has Been Taking a Phenothiazine for 1 Week

question 14

Multiple Choice

A client has been taking a phenothiazine for 1 week. She contacts the crisis intervention clinic because she is still having symptoms. The nurse's response is based on the premise that the desired effects usually take _____ to manifest.

• A) 1 week
• B) 1 to 3 weeks
• C) 3 to 6 weeks
• D) 3 to 5 months

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

Represents the count of values in a calculation that are free to vary without infringing on preset constraints.

Test Statistic

A value calculated from sample data that is used in a hypothesis test to decide whether to reject the null hypothesis.

T Test

A statistical hypothesis test used to compare the means of two groups and determine if they come from the same population by analyzing the difference.

T Value

A value calculated in a t-test that assesses the difference between two means relative to the variation in the data.