When a Preterm Infant Who Is Being Gavage Fed Has

question 22

Multiple Choice

When a preterm infant who is being gavage fed has a bloody stool,the nurse should:

• A) assess for abdominal distention.
• B) decrease the amount of the next feeding.
• C) institute enteric precautions.
• D) get a culture of the next stool.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of values, indicating how spread out the values are from the mean.

Normally Distributed

Refers to a probability distribution that is symmetric about 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 all the numbers and dividing by the count of numbers.

Hypothesized Population Mean

The expected mean value of a population parameter that is proposed prior to conducting a study.