In Making an Assessment of a Patient with a Bleeding

question 28

Short Answer

In making an assessment of a patient with a bleeding disorder who has a dark complexion,the nurse should check the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet for _____________.

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Definitions:

Evidence

Information or facts that are used to support the validity of a statement or argument.

Interpretation

An expression of the meaning or significance of a wide variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, conventions, beliefs, rules, procedures, or criteria.

Inference

Identifies and secures elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; it forms conjectures and hypotheses, it considers relevant information, and it reduces or draws out the consequences flowing from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgments, beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation.

Spontaneous Generation

The outdated belief that living organisms can arise from non-living matter without any biological process.