The Nurse Is Performing an Admission Assessment on a Stable

question 7

Multiple Choice

The nurse is performing an admission assessment on a stable patient admitted after a motor vehicle accident. The patient reports having "bad pain." What will the nurse do first?

• A) Administer acetaminophen (Tylenol).
• B) Ask the patient to rate the pain on a 1 to 10 scale.
• C) Attempt to determine what type of pain the patient has.
• D) Request an order for an intravenous opioid analgesic.

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Definitions:

Homogeneity of Variance

An assumption for certain statistical tests which posits that the variance among different groups or samples are equal.

Standard Deviations

Standard deviation is a measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of data, indicating how much individual data points deviate from the mean of the data set.

Null Hypothesis

A statement that there is no effect or no difference and that any observed effect is due to sampling or experimental error.

Assumption of Normality

This refers to the assumption that a dataset is normally distributed, often required in parametric statistical tests.