The Nurse Is Caring for a Client Who Has Had

question 132

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a client who has had a myocardial infarction. The client states, "I have been smoking for 35 years, what good will quitting do?" Which response is best?

• A)"Your risk of continued coronary artery disease will decrease by half when you stop."
• B)"Quitting will enhance the effects of your medications."
• C)"Your medications will not work if you smoke."
• D)"Quitting will ensure you don't develop any complications."

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the degree to which a dataset's values vary or are dispersed, showing the extent of deviation from the average.

Normal Distribution

A distribution of probabilities that is even on both sides of the mean, illustrating that values near the mean happen more often than values at a greater distance from the mean.

Weibull Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used widely in reliability engineering and failure analysis, which can model various types of data including life data and failure times.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a variable will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters or assumptions.