What Does an Advance Directive Indicate to the Home Health

question 12

Multiple Choice

What does an advance directive indicate to the home health nurse?

• A) The degree of intervention desired for life support
• B) Who is to manage medical decisions in case of debilitating illness
• C) Who will manage finances in case of debilitating illness
• D) The mortuary to be used in the case of death

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Definitions:

Critical Values

Critical values are specific points on the scale of a statistical distribution that are used to determine the threshold at which the null hypothesis of a test can be rejected.

Positive Autocorrelation

Occurs when a variable's current value is positively related to its past values in a time series.

Durbin-Watson Statistic

A statistical measure employed to identify if there is autocorrelation at the first lag within the residual values following a regression analysis.

Positive Autocorrelation

A situation in which the errors in a regression model are positively correlated, meaning that a positive error in one period is likely to be followed by a positive error in the next.