An Experienced Intensive Care Unit (ICU)nurse Is Resisting the Implementation

question 14

Multiple Choice

An experienced intensive care unit (ICU) nurse is resisting the implementation of telehealth in the ICU because "we each only have one or two patients and are always available." What action by the manager is best?

• A) Explain how telehealth can reduce specific adverse events in ICU patients.
• B) Provide education on the advantages of telehealth in the ICU.
• C) Remind the staff that telehealth is part of their health care environment.
• D) Visit with the nurse and ask why the nurse is so against telehealth.

Understand the impact of outliers on measures of central tendency.

Describe the characteristics of a normal distribution curve.

Understand the concept of correlation and how it does not imply causation.

Calculate and interpret variability measures such as standard deviation and range.