The Patient Is Diagnosed with Suspected Bacteremia

question 5

Multiple Choice

The patient is diagnosed with suspected bacteremia.The physician has ordered blood cultures from two different sites.The patient is complaining of chills and has an elevated temperature.What action should the nurse take in the presence of these symptoms?

• A)Delay drawing the blood cultures until symptoms subside.
• B)Draw blood from only one site to prevent further discomfort.
• C)Draw the blood cultures as ordered.
• D)Draw blood from the patient's intravenous (IV)catheter.

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Definitions:

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset; it measures the extent of variability within the data.

Skewed

A description of the asymmetry in the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, where the tail of the distribution is longer on either the right (positively skewed) or the left (negatively skewed) side.

Sample Mean

The average value of a set of data points collected from a sample of a population.

Median

The middle value of a data set when it is ordered from least to greatest, effectively splitting the data set into two equal parts.