A Pregnant Patient Who Has No Personal History of Diabetes

question 37

Multiple Choice

A pregnant patient who has no personal history of diabetes, but does have a parent who is diabetic is scheduled for the first prenatal visit. Which action will the nurse plan to take on this initial visit?

• A) Teach about appropriate use of regular insulin.
• B) Discuss the need for a fasting blood glucose level.
• C) Schedule an oral glucose tolerance test for the twenty fourth week of pregnancy.
• D) Provide education about increased risk for fetal problems with gestational diabetes.

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Definitions:

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points within a population.

F-distributed

Pertaining to an F-distribution, used in statistical analysis to compare variances.

Independent Samples

Two or more groups of observations that are collected from different populations and have no relationship with each other.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points in a population, indicating how much the data points differ from the population mean.