The Nurse Is Caring for a Patient with Severe Neurological

question 22

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a patient with severe neurological impairment following a massive stroke.The physician has ordered tests to determine brain death.The nurse understands that criteria for brain death include (Select all that apply.)

• A) absence of cerebral blood flow.
• B) absence of brainstem reflexes on neurological examination.
• C) Cheyne-Stokes respirations.
• D) flat electroencephalogram.
• E) responding only to painful stimuli.

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Definitions:

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail is longer on the left side of the distribution's peak, indicating most values are high and few are low.

Tail

The far end portions of a distribution curve where the likelihood of values occurring becomes smaller; in skewed distributions, one tail may be longer than the other.

Negative Skew

A distribution that is skewed to the left, indicating that the tail on the left side is longer or fatter than the right side and the mean is typically less than the median.

Distribution

Refers to the way values in a data set are spread or dispersed, indicating the pattern of variations within the data.