The Nurse Is Caring for a Client Who Had a Stroke

question 2

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a client who had a stroke affecting the right hemisphere of the brain. Which of the following nursing diagnoses is appropriate based on knowledge of the effects of right brain damage?

• A)Impaired physical mobility related to decrease in muscle control (right hemiplegia).
• B)Risk for injury as evidenced by alteration in cognitive functioning
• C)Impaired verbal communication related to environmental barrier (impaired speech)
• D)Ineffective coping related to insufficient sense of control (depression and distress about disability).

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Definitions:

Probability of Success

The likelihood that an action, experiment, or event will produce a desired outcome, often used in the context of statistical experiments.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a value will take one of two independent states across a number of observations or trials.

Normal Approximation

A method used in statistics where a normal distribution is used to approximate a different, often more complex, distribution under certain conditions.

Probability

The likelihood of occurrence of an event, often represented as a value between 0 and 1.