A Client Is Admitted to a Nursing Unit in Acute

question 4

Multiple Choice

A client is admitted to a nursing unit in acute alcoholic withdrawal. Which nursing diagnosis is the highest priority early in this admission?

• A) Risk for injury related to disorientation and seizure activity
• B) Disturbed thought processes due to symptoms of withdrawal
• C) Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements due to poor intake
• D) Acute constipation related to effects of poor nutrition and decreased activity

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Definitions:

Variability

The degree to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from each other and from the average.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variation in a set of numbers, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Measure of Central Tendency

A statistical tool used to identify the center of a data set, commonly represented by the mean, median, or mode.

Mode

The most frequently occurring value in a set of data or distribution in statistics.