The Nurse Should Be Cognizant of Which Important Information Regarding

question 32

Multiple Choice

The nurse should be cognizant of which important information regarding nerve block analgesia and anesthesia?

• A) Most local agents are chemically related to cocaine and end in the suffix -caine.
• B) Local perineal infiltration anesthesia is effective when epinephrine is added, but it can be injected only once.
• C) Pudendal nerve block is designed to relieve the pain from uterine contractions.
• D) Pudendal nerve block, if performed correctly, does not significantly lessen the bearing-down reflex.

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Definitions:

P-value

The p-value is a statistical measurement used to assess the strength of the results in hypothesis testing; it indicates the probability of observing the study results, or more extreme results, if the null hypothesis were true.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution without violating any constraint.

Significance Level

The threshold used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis, commonly denoted as alpha (α).