During the Admission Assessment of an Individual Admitted to the Medical

question 12

Multiple Choice

During the admission assessment of an individual admitted to the medical respiratory unit, the nurse notes the patient has a barrel-shaped chest. Which of the following assessments should the nurse perform next?

• A)Assess the patient's rate and character of respirations
• B)Palpate the patient's thorax to determine presence of tenderness
• C)Obtain a blood sample for arterial blood gas (ABG) to detect respiratory acidosis
• D)Ask the patient about presence of a productive cough

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A measure of the variability or dispersion of a sampling distribution.

Margin of Error

The largest anticipated discrepancy between the actual population parameter and its estimate derived from a sample.

Normal Distribution

A symmetric, bell-shaped distribution of data in which most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.

Confidence Interval

A statistical range, with a certain level of confidence, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown parameter.