MrsWinslow Is Receiving TPN

question 62

Multiple Choice

Mrs.Winslow is receiving TPN.Today's lab work shows that her triglyceride level is 500 mg/dL.The nurse recognizes that:

• A)the TPN should be stopped immediately.
• B)the dextrose concentration of the TPN solution should be decreased.
• C)the rate of the TPN should be decreased.
• D)the infusion of lipids should be reduced or stopped.

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Definitions:

Null Hypothesis

An initial assumption made for statistical analysis that suggests no significant effect or relationship exists between variables.

Proportion

A measure that represents a part of a whole as a fraction or percentage.

T Distribution

A probability distribution used in statistics for estimating population parameters when the sample size is small and the population variance is unknown.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities that can be assigned to a statistical distribution or in the calculation of a statistic.