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A 12-Year-Old Child with Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)is Admitted to the Pediatric

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A 12-year-old child with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.She tells you that yesterday her legs were weak and that this morning she was unable to walk.After the nurse determines the current level of paralysis,which should the next priority assessment be?


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Word Superiority Effect

A phenomenon where letters are more easily recognized and processed in the context of a word than as isolated letters or in non-words.

Screen

To examine or evaluate something or someone in order to identify certain characteristics, often used in contexts such as medical screening or selection processes.

Letters

Characters that are used in an alphabet to represent sounds and form words.

Word Superiority Effect

A phenomenon in cognitive psychology that people have better recognition of letters presented within words as opposed to isolated letters or letters within non-words.

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