A Provider Has Ordered a STAT Medication to Be Administered

question 39

Multiple Choice

A provider has ordered a STAT medication to be administered.The nurse knows that the best route of administration is

• A) IV.
• B) IM.
• C) SQ.
• D) PO.

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Definitions:

Hypothesis Testing

A statistical method used to determine if there is enough evidence in a sample of data to infer that a certain condition is true for the entire population.

Interval Estimation

Estimation of a population parameter with a range, or interval, of values within which one has a certain degree of confidence the population parameter falls.

Confidence Interval

A collection of numerical indicators, derived from sampling statistics, believed to contain the estimations of an obscure population parameter.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population for the purpose of statistical analysis.