The Nurse Is Talking to a Parent of an Infant

question 37

Multiple Choice

The nurse is talking to a parent of an infant with heart failure about feeding the infant. Which statement about feeding the child is correct?

• A) "You may need to increase the caloric density of your infant's formula."
• B) "You should feed your baby every 2 hours."
• C) "You may need to increase the amount of formula your infant eats with each feeding."
• D) "You should place a nasal oxygen cannula on your infant during and after each feeding."

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Definitions:

Test Statistic

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Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that there is no effect or no difference, and it serves as the default or starting assumption in hypothesis testing.

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