A Nurse Is Caring for a Client Who Is Scheduled

question 14

Multiple Choice

A nurse is caring for a client who is scheduled to have a below the knee amputation. The client is visibly upset and angry and shouts at the nurse. Which of the following responses would be most appropriate?

• A) "You can yell at me all you want. I still need to take your vital signs."
• B) "Be quiet. Your shouting is going to upset the other clients."
• C) "It's okay to be angry and upset. Is there anything I can do to help?"
• D) "The physician has ordered you a sedative. Let me get it now."

Evaluate the effects of training and education on improving judgment and reasoning tasks.

Illustrate how different types of thinking (judgment, reasoning, decision making, problem solving) are related to behavior.

Understand the concept of average product and how to calculate it.

Grasp the concept of marginal product and its calculation.

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Definitions:

Population Variance

Population Variance is a measure of the dispersion of all the values in a population from the mean, highlighting how spread out the population data points are.

Standard Deviation

Indicates how dispersed the values in a data set are, relative to the mean of the set.

Chi-Square Values

Statistical measures used in hypothesis testing, especially to determine whether categorical variables are independent.

Interval Estimation

A range of values, calculated from sample data, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.