A Priority Nursing Intervention for a Client in the Emergency

question 3

Multiple Choice

A priority nursing intervention for a client in the emergency department with a suspected spinal cord injury is to

• A) administer mannitol.
• B) give a tetanus booster shot.
• C) logroll the client.
• D) obtain a thorough history.

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Definitions:

Standard Error

A measure of the variability of a statistic from sample to sample, often used to quantify the accuracy of a sample mean.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, representing how spread out the values are from the mean.

Sample Means

The average values calculated from samples drawn from a population; used in inferential statistics as estimates of the population mean.

Population Mean

The average value of a characteristic in the entire population being studied.