A Pregnant Woman Who Has Recently Immigrated to the United

question 14

Multiple Choice

A pregnant woman who has recently immigrated to the United States comments to the nurse,"I am afraid of childbirth.It is so dangerous.I am afraid I will die." A nursing response reflecting cultural sensitivity would be:

• A) "Maternal mortality in the United States is extremely low. "
• B) "Anesthesia is available to relieve pain during labor and childbirth. "
• C) "Tell me why you are afraid of childbirth. "
• D) "Your condition will be monitored during labor and delivery. "

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Definitions:

Positively Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where most values are concentrated on the left, with a long tail extending to the right.

Probability

The likelihood of an event's occurrence assessed by a numerical scale extending from 0 to 1.

Sampling Distribution

The distribution of probabilities for a specific statistic derived from a random sample, illustrating the variation of the statistic across different samples.

Normally Distributed

A statistical term describing a bell-shaped distribution of data points, symmetric about the mean, where most observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities for values further from the mean taper off equally in both directions.