A Child Is Brought to the Emergency Department from a House

question 17

Multiple Choice

A child is brought to the emergency department from a house fire.She has singed eyebrows and sounds hoarse.After applying oxygen,which action by the nurse takes priority?

• A) Assemble intubation equipment.
• B) Gently cleanse any burn wounds.
• C) Place child on a cardiac monitor.
• D) Prepare to give pain medication.

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Definitions:

Chebyshev's Theorem

A statistical theorem which states that for any real number greater than one, a certain proportion of values in any data set will be close to the mean, based on the number of standard deviations specified.

Standard Deviations

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

Midrange

The arithmetic average of the maximum and minimum values in a data set.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, indicating how much they differ from the mean.