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A patient is admitted to a skilled nursing facility with a closed head injury. The nurse believes that the patient has been pocketing food in his cheeks during the noon meal although she has not found any food pocketed. The nurse refers the patient to the speech therapist for a swallowing evaluation. The nurse is using which critical-thinking component in making this decision?


Definitions:

Simplify

To reduce a mathematical expression to its most basic form, making it easier to work with.

Multiply

To increase a number by a specified factor, or the operation of adding a number to itself a certain number of times.

Simplify

To alter an expression to make it easier to understand or work with, often by combining like terms or applying mathematical operations.

Multiply

The process of calculating the total of one number added to itself a specified number of times.

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