What Does the Nurse Need to Understand About Assessing a Patient's

question 12

Multiple Choice

What does the nurse need to understand about assessing a patient's quality of life (QOL) ?  

• A)It is an objective measure of comfort and factors that make life worth living. 
• B)It is considered good only if the patient feels fulfilled and can be independent. 
• C)It generally means the same thing to most patients, families, and nurses. 
• D)It includes subjective ideas about conditions of life and functional ability.

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Definitions:

Production Function

Describes the relationship between the quantities of inputs used in production and the quantity of output produced, illustrating how input changes affect output.

Returns To Scale

Refers to how the output of a production process changes as all input quantities are scaled up or down.

Marginal Products

The additional output that is produced by employing one more unit of a specific input, while keeping other inputs constant.

Exponents

mathematical operations denoting how many times a number, the base, is multiplied by itself.