A Self-Management Technique That Guides Insulin Prescriptions for Clients with Type

question 17

Multiple Choice

A self-management technique that guides insulin prescriptions for clients with type 1 diabetes is:

• A) weighing daily.
• B) self-monitoring of blood glucose.
• C) daily urine testing.
• D) calculating intake and output.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a measure used in statistics to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Normal Distribution

A symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution of data where most of the observations cluster around the central peak and the probabilities of values taper off equally in both directions from the center.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by dividing the sum of all the values by the number of values.

Standard Normal Variable

A random variable that has been normalized so that it has a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1, following the standard normal distribution.