Which Action by the Nurse Is Appropriate When Providing Care

question 28

Multiple Choice

Which action by the nurse is appropriate when providing care to a female client who is the victim of domestic violence?

• A) Providing adequate time for the client to tell her story
• B) Reporting the incident to the police to protect the client
• C) Telling the spouse about the client's accusations of abuse
• D) Stressing to the client that the abuse could have been avoided

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion representing the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Score

A numerical or categorical representation of a performance, achievement, or the outcome of an assessment.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of the values by the number of values.

Variance

The average of the squared differences from the Mean, providing a measure of how spread out numbers are in a dataset.