A Nurse Asks a Patient, "If You Had Fever and Vomiting

question 25

Multiple Choice

A nurse asks a patient, "If you had fever and vomiting for 3 days, what would you do?" Which aspect of the mental status examination is the nurse assessing?

• A) Behavior
• B) Cognition
• C) Affect and mood
• D) Perceptual disturbances

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Definitions:

Type II Error

A statistical error that occurs when a null hypothesis is not rejected when it is in fact false.

Null Hypothesis

A statement of no effect or no difference, used as a default assumption in statistical hypothesis testing.

T Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistical analysis for small sample sizes, shaped similarly to a normal distribution but with thicker tails.

Standard Normal Distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.