Nurses Should Be Aware That the Biophysical Profile (BPP)

question 12

Multiple Choice

Nurses should be aware that the biophysical profile (BPP) :

• A)Is an accurate indicator of impending fetal death.
• B)Is a compilation of health risk factors of the mother during the later stages of pregnancy.
• C)Consists of a Doppler blood flow analysis and an amniotic fluid index.
• D)Involves an invasive form of ultrasound examination.

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Definitions:

Categories

Distinct groups or classes into which data can be classified.

Expected Frequency

The number of times an event is predicted to occur within a specified number of trials or over a given period of time, based on probability.

Observed Frequency

The count of occurrences or instances of a particular event or characteristic in a data set.

Chi-squared Distribution

A distribution used in statistics to test hypotheses about the frequency distribution of observed data compared to the expected distribution if the null hypothesis is true.