The Nurse Correlates Which Laboratory Value as Increasing the Risk

question 26

Multiple Choice

The nurse correlates which laboratory value as increasing the risk of infection in the postoperative patient?

• A)Hematocrit 32%
• B)Potassium 3 mEq/L
• C)Sodium 150 mEq/L
• D)Glucose 120 mg/dL

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Definitions:

Level of Significance

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability of rejecting a true null hypothesis, often denoted by alpha.

Mean Square

A statistical measure calculated by dividing the sum of squares by the degrees of freedom, often used in variance analysis.

Treatments

Interventions or actions performed in an experimental study to test their effect on an outcome compared to a control condition.

ANOVA

Stands for Analysis of Variance, a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples.