Diagnostic Reasoning Requires the Ability to Generate Multiple Hypotheses from Observed

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Multiple Choice

Diagnostic reasoning requires the ability to generate multiple hypotheses from observed data. To support and enhance the preceptee's developing diagnostic reasoning skills, the preceptor should

• A) encourage the preceptee to commit to a tentative explanation for observations
• B) identify data that the preceptee failed to address in developing a tentative explanation
• C) correct errors or misinterpretations of observed data
• D) all of these
• E) only a and c

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Definitions:

Biogeochemical Cycle

Process by which matter cycles from the living world to the nonliving, physical environment and back again (e.g., the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the phosphorus cycle).

Photochemical Smog

A type of air pollution created by the reaction of sunlight with pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere.

Carbon Cycle

The biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth.

Respiration

The metabolic processes by which an organism obtains energy (in the form of ATP) by absorbing oxygen and releasing waste products.