The Nurse Is Examining a Client in the Third Trimester

question 19

Multiple Choice

The nurse is examining a client in the third trimester of pregnancy. Which finding would require immediate intervention by the nurse?

• A) Pulse of 98 beats per minute.
• B) Weight gain of 1.5 pounds in a month.
• C) Blood pressure of 148/94 mmHg.
• D) Respiratory rate of 26 per minute.

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Definitions:

Posterior Probability

is the probability of the hypotheses given the observed data, calculated using Bayes' theorem.

Prior Probability

The likelihood of an event occurring before new evidence is taken into account.

Conditional Probability

The estimated probability of an event's occurrence when it is already known that another event has preceded it.

Thomas Bayes

An 18th-century British statistician and clergyman known for formulating the Bayes' Theorem, which describes the probability of an event based on prior knowledge.