What Action Should the Nurse Implement When a Patient Falls

question 1

Multiple Choice

What action should the nurse implement when a patient falls to the floor in a generalized seizure?

• A) Cradle the head to prevent injury.
• B) Insert an object between the teeth to prevent the patient from biting the tongue.
• C) Manually restrain the limbs.
• D) Keep the patient on his or her back to prevent aspiration.

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Definitions:

Ratio

A relationship between two numbers indicating how many times the first number contains the second or how the two numbers compare in size.

Median

The middle value in a set of data when it is ordered from least to greatest, or the point at which half the data values are above and half are below.

Median

The middle value in a set of ordered data, or the average of the two middle values when the set has an even number of observations.

Absolute Frequency

The count of occurrences or instances of a particular event or property in a dataset.