You Are Evaluating a New Patient Who Had a Stroke

question 1

Multiple Choice

You are evaluating a new patient who had a stroke 6 days ago. Which of the following is the best method for assessing this patient's respiration?

• A) Ask the patient to refrain from talking so that you can count her or his breathing rate.
• B) Assess respiration during the patient's conversation so that he or she is unaware.
• C) Check the nursing records to determine the patient's respiration rate.
• D) Count the rise and fall of the chest for 30 sec while the patient is unaware.

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Definitions:

Mode

The value that appears most frequently in a data set, representing the highest peak in a distribution.

Hypothesis

A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, set forth as a starting point for further investigation through experimentation or observation.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, often the mean, median, or mode.

Bimodal Distributions

Probability distributions with two different modes or peaks, reflecting two dominant values in a dataset.