A Patient Has Been on Hydrocodone for 6 Months and Asks

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient has been on hydrocodone for 6 months and asks if this medication is addictive.Which of the following would be the nurse's best response?

• A) "Dependence may develop."
• B) "This is not an addictive narcotic."
• C) "All medications are addictive."
• D) "Taking food with this medication will help."

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Definitions:

Dependent Variables

Variables in an experiment that are expected to change as a result of changes made to the independent variables.

Frequency Polygon

A graphical representation of the distribution of numerical data. It is a line graph of class frequencies plotted against mid-point values.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence.

Outliers

Data points that significantly differ from other observations in a dataset, potentially indicating a measurement error or a different underlying process.