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In Reviewing the Chart of a 15-Year-Old Client Who Suffered

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In reviewing the chart of a 15-year-old client who suffered a head trauma in a sports accident, the nurse notes a serum potassium of 2.8 mEq/L and a serum sodium of 122 mEq/L. What addition to the nursing care plan would be most appropriate for the nurse to make based on this information?


Definitions:

Sampling Error

The discrepancy between the statistical characteristics of a sample and those of the population from which the sample was drawn.

Sample Variance

A measure of dispersion that calculates how much the numbers in a sample differ from the mean of the sample.

Unbiased Estimate

An estimator or prediction that, on average, exactly matches the parameter being estimated in the population.

Denominator

The bottom number in a fraction that shows into how many equal parts the whole is divided.

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