While Planning Care for Infants, Which Principles Should the Nurse

question 11

Multiple Choice

While planning care for infants, which principles should the nurse remember? (select all that apply) Infants have problems with thermoregulation because they:

• A) cannot conserve heat.
• B) do not shiver.
• C) rarely sweat.
• D) have decreased metabolic rates.
• E) have excess subcutaneous fat.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A balanced probability distribution centered around the mean, where data closer to the mean are seen more frequently than data considerably far from the mean.

Area

The extent or measurement of a surface or piece of land, typically measured in square units.

F Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics, especially in analysis of variance (ANOVA), to determine the variance among sample means.

Parameters

In statistics, parameters are numerical characteristics that describe and summarize features of a population.