The Nurse Is Preparing to Administer Alendronate to a Client

question 7

Multiple Choice

The nurse is preparing to administer alendronate to a client with osteoporosis. Which of the following actions will the nurse implement initially?

• A)Ensure the client has recently eaten.
• B)Ask about any leg cramps or hot flashes.
• C)Assist the client to sit up at the bedside.
• D)Administer the prescribed calcium carbonate.

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Definitions:

Good Hypothesis

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon that is specific, testable, and based on existing knowledge.

Null Hypothesis

A rephrased definition: The presumption that no significant relationship exists in the population and that any observed effect is due to sampling variability.

Indirectly

In a way that is not directly expressed or done; an indirect method or approach.

Null Hypotheses

A statement used in statistics that proposes there is no significant difference or relationship between specified populations, or no effect of a particular treatment.