The Nurse Is Taking a Drug History from a Patient

question 3

Multiple Choice

The nurse is taking a drug history from a patient about her medication,and the patient tells the nurse that the one aspirin she takes a day gives her stomach pain.The patient is having which of the following kinds of reaction?

• A) Allergy
• B) Side effect
• C) Toxic
• D) Paradoxical

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Definitions:

P(A ∩ B)

The probability that events A and B both occur, also known as the intersection of A and B.

Venn Diagram

A graphical representation for showing symbolically the sample space and operations involving events in which the sample space is represented by a rectangle and events are represented as circles within the sample space.

Conditional Probability (P(B))

The probability of an event (B) occurring given that another event (A) has already occurred.

Posterior Probabilities

The revised probabilities of scenarios or hypotheses being true, adjusted after taking into account new evidence or information.