The Nursing Staff Is Working with a Postoperative Patient from Another

question 24

Multiple Choice

The nursing staff is working with a postoperative patient from another culture who does not understand or speak the English language well.Which approach by the nurse would be best?

• A) Act out what the patient needs to do.
• B) Obtain a medical interpreter.
• C) Assess how much the patient is able to communicate in his native language.
• D) Talk slowly when instructions are given.

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Definitions:

P(B / A)

The probability of event B occurring given that event A has already occurred, often used in conditional probability and Bayesian statistics.

Union

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Random Events

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Probability Space

The mathematical framework for probability in which a sample space, together with a probability measure, models the outcome of a random experiment.