A Nurse Uses Roy's Model to Guide Nursing Care

question 22

Multiple Choice

A nurse uses Roy's model to guide nursing care.When using this model, what stimuli would be important for the nurse to assess? (Select all that apply.)

• A) Adaptive stimuli: stimuli the patient knows is beneficial
• B) Contextual stimuli: all stimuli in the patient's environment
• C) Focal stimuli: what is confronting the patient immediately?
• D) Residual stimuli: stimuli that is left over from prior experience
• E) Transient stimuli: stimuli that is not expected to have a permanent effect

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An assessment of the extent to which values in a set are dispersed or varied from the mean, highlighting the differences from the average.

Z-score

A statistical measure that describes the position of a data point in terms of standard deviations from the mean.

Standard Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of data in which the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1, used in statistics to represent theoretical distributions.

Z-score

An analytical indicator showing a value's position in relation to the average within a collection of values, expressed through its distance from the mean as measured in standard deviations.