A Patient Being Treated for a Traumatic Brain Injury for 3

question 16

Multiple Choice

A patient being treated for a traumatic brain injury for 3 days begins to seize.Which intervention is the nurse's priority?

• A)Administer fosphenytoin (Cerebyx)4 mg per kg of patient body weight.
• B)Keep the patient safe and maintain the airway.
• C)Lower the head of the bed.
• D)Initiate a recording of the patient's cardiac rhythm.

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Definitions:

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can vary in the analysis without violating any constraints.

Type I Error

The incorrect rejection of a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive."

Critical Values

Thresholds or boundaries in statistical tests that define the region where the null hypothesis can either be rejected or not rejected.

National Survey

A large-scale survey conducted across a nation to collect various data from a representative sample of its population.