A Nurse Is Administering Medications to a Client

question 23

Multiple Choice

A nurse is administering medications to a client. The client states, "I've never taken that yellow pill before." What should the nurse do first?

• A) Tell the client that some are made by different pharmaceutical companies and may look different.
• B) Reassure the client that the nurse has triple checked the drug so it is safe to take.
• C) Contact the health provider to verify it is the correct medication and dose.
• D) Verify the order and double-check the label.

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Definitions:

Margin of Error

The range within which the true population parameter is expected to lie, with a certain level of confidence.

Confidence

In statistics, it often pertains to the degree of certainty or probability that a parameter falls within a specified range.

Population Variance

A measure of the spread of a distribution within an entire population, indicating how much the data differ from the mean.

T Distribution

A probability distribution that emerges in the context of estimating the mean for a normally distributed population, applicable when dealing with a small sample size and the population standard deviation is not known.