A Patient in the Emergency Department Has Just Been Diagnosed

question 39

Multiple Choice

A patient in the emergency department has just been diagnosed with peritonitis caused by a ruptured diverticulum. Which prescribed intervention will the nurse implement first?

• A)Insert a urinary catheter to drainage.
• B)Infuse metronidazole (Flagyl) 500 mg IV.
• C)Send the patient for a computerized tomography scan.
• D)Place a nasogastric (NG) tube to intermittent low suction.

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Definitions:

T-test

A technique in statistics for comparing the means of two groups to see if they differ in a statistically significant way.

Alpha

Often referred to as the level of significance in hypothesis testing, it represents the threshold at which the null hypothesis is rejected.

T-test

A statistical test used to compare the mean of two groups to see if there is a significant difference between them.

Null Hypothesis

The hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, any observed difference being due to sampling or experimental error.