Nurses Need to Know the Basic Definitions and Incidence Data

question 27

Multiple Choice

Nurses need to know the basic definitions and incidence data about postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) .For instance:

• A)PPH is easy to recognize early; after all, the woman is bleeding.
• B)Traditionally it takes more than 1000 mL of blood after vaginal birth and 2500 mL after cesarean birth to define the condition as PPH.
• C)If anything, nurses and doctors tend to overestimate the amount of blood loss.
• D)Traditionally PPH has been classified as early or late with respect to birth.

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Definitions:

Aggregate Income

The total income earned by all factors of production in an economy over a specific time period, including wages, rents, interest, and profits.

Aggregate Consumption

The total amount of goods and services consumed in an economy over a given period of time.

Consumption Function

A formula that expresses the relationship between total consumption and gross national income.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability of a dataset relative to its mean, used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.