An 18-Month-Old Male Is Admitted to the Hospital with Symptoms

question 92

Multiple Choice

An 18-month-old male is admitted to the hospital with symptoms of a respiratory infection. The patient's mother reports that since birth, the toddler has frequently had a cough and copious nasal secretions. His weight gain has been poor, despite his excellent appetite. The patient appears in moderate respiratory distress, so oxygen therapy and intravenous fluids are initiated. The physician orders tests for cystic fibrosis due to the patient's history and clinical presentation. When the tests confirm the diagnosis, as the RN, you provide education to the mother regarding this autosomal recessive disease.
-Which of the following is the most appropriate term to describe the patient's clinical manifestations of cough,rhinorrhea,and poor weight gain due to this genetic disease?  

• A)Genotype
• B)Phenotype
• C)Structural genes
• D)Regulatory genes

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

The predetermined threshold in hypothesis testing, below which the null hypothesis is rejected, indicating statistical significance.

Industry Standard

A set of criteria within an industry relating to the quality, safety, and performance of products and services accepted as the norm.

P-Value

The probability measure indicating the likelihood of obtaining a test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of data points, indicating how spread out the data points are from the mean.