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A Nurse Utilizes the SPICES Tool (Sleep Disorders, Problems with Eating

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A nurse utilizes the SPICES tool (Sleep disorders, Problems with eating, Incontinence, Confusion, Evidence of falls, and Skin breakdown) to assess an older female patient in the hospital. The nurse notes that the patient has new onset urinary incontinence. The first action by the nurse is to:


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Inactive Treatment

A treatment or therapy that lacks active components, often used as a control condition in experimental research to assess the efficacy of treatments.

Daily Check-ins

The practice of regularly reviewing one's feelings, tasks, or wellness, often used for maintaining mental health or team productivity.

Internal Validity

Extent to which all factors that could extraneously affect a study’s results are controlled within a laboratory study.

Experimental Group

The group in a scientific study that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to the control group which does not.

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