The Nurse Is Preparing to Perform a Functional Assessment of an Older

question 8

Multiple Choice

The nurse is preparing to perform a functional assessment of an older patient and knows that a good approach would be to:

• A)Observe the patient's ability to perform the tasks.
• B)Ask the patient's wife how he does when performing tasks.
• C)Review the medical record for information on the patient's abilities.
• D)Ask the patient's physician for information on the patient's abilities.

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Definitions:

Inference Conditions

Inference conditions refer to the set of assumptions or criteria that must be satisfied to legitimately use certain statistical inference techniques, ensuring the results are accurate.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or spread in a set of data; it tells us how much the values in a data set vary from the mean.

Population Standard Deviation

A measure of the variability or diversity within a full set or entire population of data.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from statistical analysis, that is likely to contain the true value of an unknown population parameter.