A Nurse Documents: "Patient Is Mute, Despite Repeated Efforts to Elicit

question 5

Multiple Choice

A nurse documents: "Patient is mute, despite repeated efforts to elicit speech. Makes no eye contact. Is inattentive to staff. Gazes off to the side or looks upward rather than at the speaker." Which nursing diagnosis should be considered?

• A) Defensive coping
• B) Decisional conflict
• C) Risk for other-directed violence
• D) Impaired verbal communication

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Definitions:

Standard Deviations

A statistic that measures the dispersion or spread of a set of data points relative to their mean.

Mean

The average of a set of numerical values, calculated by summing them up and dividing by the number of values.

Deviation

In statistics, it refers to the difference between the observed value and the mean of a dataset, indicating how much the data points diverge from the average.

Skewness

A measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable.