A Patient Comes to the Clinic and Is Worried About

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient comes to the clinic and is worried about developing a neurological condition seen in the patient's mother and aunt.The best action by the nurse is to:

• A) conduct a thorough neurological examination on the patient.
• B) develop a multigenerational family health history (pedigree).
• C) have the patient voice these concerns to the physician.
• D) refer the patient to a genetic counselor immediately.

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Definitions:

Stratified Random Sample

A sampling method that divides the population into strata, or subgroups, and selects random samples from each stratum to ensure representation.

Statistic

A numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample, used to infer properties of the population from which it was drawn.

Parameter

A quantity that defines certain characteristics of a system or function, often used in mathematical or statistical models.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number of events occurring in a fixed interval of time or space when these events occur with a known constant mean rate and independently of the time since the last event.