A Child with Hypopituitarism Is Being Started on Growth Hormone

question 36

Multiple Choice

A child with hypopituitarism is being started on growth hormone (GH) therapy. Nursing considerations should be based on which knowledge?

• A) Treatment is most successful if it is started during adolescence.
• B) Treatment is considered successful if children attain full stature by adulthood.
• C) Replacement therapy requires daily subcutaneous injections.
• D) Replacement therapy will be required throughout the child's lifetime.

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Definitions:

GAISE

Stands for Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education, recommending strategies for statistics education that promote students' active learning.

Poisson Distribution

A probability distribution that models the number of times an event occurs in a fixed interval of time or space, assuming events occur with a known constant mean rate independently of the time since the last event.

Chi-square Statistic

A statistic used to test hypotheses about the distribution of observations among categories.

Fixed Interval

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