Which Statement by a Young Adult Would Alert the Nurse

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which statement by a young adult would alert the nurse to increased suicide risk?

• A) "I have a necktie in my room that I can use to hang myself."
• B) "If I fail one more class, I'm going to have to think about ending it."
• C) "When I leave home to live on my own, I'm going to buy myself a gun."
• D) "When I took two bottles of Mom's pills, I had to have my stomach pumped."

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is believed to contain the true population parameter with a certain level of probability.

True Mean

The actual average value of a population or dataset, often estimated through sample means in statistical analysis.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average squared deviation from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter with a specified degree of confidence.