A Nursing Student Is Assisting with Ambulation of a Blind

question 4

Multiple Choice

A nursing student is assisting with ambulation of a blind patient.The patient has hemiplegia of the right side.The best position for the student nurse to assume when ambulating is by standing on the patient's _____ side and walking a half step _____ the patient.

• A) left; ahead
• B) right; ahead
• C) left; behind
• D) right; behind

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Definitions:

Edgeworth Box

A graphical representation of the trading possibilities and equilibrium between two individuals with fixed amounts of two goods.

Utility Function

A mathematical model in economics that represents consumer preferences over a set of goods and services, by assigning a utility value for each possible bundle of goods.

Convex Preferences

Preferences that express a consumer's desire for diversified bundles of goods over extreme bundles, depicted graphically as convex indifference curves.

Edgeworth Box

A diagram representing various distributions of resources, used to examine issues of allocation efficiency in economics.