A Nurse Is Seeing a Patient with Diabetes Who Reports

question 27

Multiple Choice

A nurse is seeing a patient with diabetes who reports that she thinks her diabetes is worse. She is feeling tired all the time, has difficulty enjoying things, and has problems concentrating and sleeping. What should the nurse consider in her assessment?

• A) The patient may have social phobia.
• B) The patient may have panic disorder.
• C) The patient may have bipolar disorder.
• D) The patient may have depression.

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Definitions:

Ordinal Data

Data that is categorized into ordered levels, groups, or rankings, but the intervals between the ranks are not necessarily equal.

Interval Data

A type of data that consists of numerical values where the order and the exact differences between the values are meaningful.

Nominal Data

Data classified into distinct categories according to specified characteristics that cannot be ordered in a meaningful way.

Qualitative

Relating to, measuring, or measured by the quality of something rather than its quantity.