A Client Has Been Placed on Depakote for Treatment of a Bipolar

question 11

Multiple Choice

A client has been placed on Depakote for treatment of a bipolar disorder.Which of the following statements indicates that the client might need more teaching about the medication?

• A)"I understand that I am not to drive until I know whether this medicine will make me sleepy."
• B)"I need to tell my physician if I begin to have abnormal bruising of my skin, bleeding from my gums, or bloody stools."
• C)"I need to tell my physician if I decide I want to become pregnant."
• D)"This medication will make my manic episodes go away within 24 hours."

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Definitions:

Type I Error

The error of rejecting a true null hypothesis, also known as a "false positive" error.

Type II Error

Failing to detect an effect or difference that exists because the null hypothesis was incorrectly accepted.

α

Alpha (α) is a threshold value used in hypothesis testing to determine the significance level at which the null hypothesis can be rejected.

Effect Size

A numeric evaluation of the size of the effect observed in an experiment.