A Resident in a Skilled Nursing Facility for a Short

question 3

Multiple Choice

A resident in a skilled nursing facility for a short term rehabilitation following a hip replacement says to the nurse, "I don't want to have you draw any more blood for those useless tests." When the nurse fails to convince the patient to have the blood drawn, the most appropriate documentation would be:

• A) "Refuses to have blood drawn. Doctor notified."
• B) "Refuses to have blood drawn; says tests are 'useless.' Doctor notified."
• C) "Doctor notified of failure to draw ordered blood work."
• D) "Blood not drawn because tests are no longer desired by patient."

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Definitions:

Chi-squared Test Statistic

A measure used in statistics to determine the significance of the differences between categorical variables.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution characterized by its mean and standard deviation, showing how data points are dispersed or spread out.

Chi-squared Probability Distribution

A distribution that represents the distribution of the sum of the squares of variables that are independent and normally distributed.

Normal Distribution

Another term for Gaussian distribution; a probability distribution that is symmetric around the mean, indicating that data close to the mean are more frequent than data far from the mean.