When the Person Is Supine and the Head Is Flexed

question 5

Multiple Choice

When the person is supine and the head is flexed to the chest without pain, resistance, or flexion of the hips or knees, the nurse is observing which neurological sign?

• A)Brudzinski's sign.
• B)Romberg's sign.
• C)Kernig's sign.
• D)Babinski's sign.

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Definitions:

Matched Pairs Experiment

An experimental design where pairs of subjects are matched based on certain characteristics before one member of each pair is randomly assigned to the treatment group and the other to the control.

Randomized Block Design

A statistical experiment design that attempts to remove the effects of known confounding variables by grouping similar experimental units together into blocks before randomly assigning treatments.

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Blocking

A technique used in experimental design to reduce sources of variability within a test by grouping experimental units that are similar in ways that are expected to affect the response to the treatments.