The Nurse's Initial Action for a Patient with Moderate Dementia

question 16

Multiple Choice

The nurse's initial action for a patient with moderate dementia who develops increased restlessness and agitation should be to

• A)reorient the patient to time, place, and person.
• B)administer a PRN dose of lorazepam (Ativan).
• C)assess for factors that might be causing discomfort.
• D)assign unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) to stay in the patient's room.

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Definitions:

Variance

A statistical measure that tells us how much a set of numbers is spread out; it's the average of the squared differences from the Mean.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, determined from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter.

Standard Deviation

A gauge for the level of variability or disparity within a set of data points.

Interval Estimate

A type of estimate used in statistics that specifies a range within which a population parameter is expected to lie with a certain level of confidence.