The Nurse Is Performing the Denver II Screening Test on a 12-Month-Old

question 6

Multiple Choice

The nurse is performing the Denver II screening test on a 12-month-old infant during a routine well-child visit.The nurse should tell the infant's parents that the Denver II:

• A) tests three areas of development: cognitive, physical, and psychological.
• B) will indicate whether the child has a speech disorder so that treatment can begin.
• C) is a screening instrument designed to detect children who are slow in development.
• D) is a test to determine intellectual ability and may indicate whether there will be problems later in school.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An examination of the level of disparity or distribution range among values.

Skewed

A description of a distribution that is not symmetrical around its mean, indicating that the data points tend to extend more to one side than the other.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is symmetrically shaped around the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the count of these numbers.