A Student Nurse Reading a Client's Chart Notes That the Physician

question 11

Multiple Choice

A student nurse reading a client's chart notes that the physician has documented an adolescent as prepubescent. What does the term prepubescent mean?

• A) Adult secondary sex characteristics are present
• B) Ova and sperm are produced by the reproductive organs
• C) Reproductive organs do not yet produce ova and sperm
• D) Active sexual behavior has been initiated

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Definitions:

Size of the Effect

The magnitude of the difference or relationship between variables, often used to understand the practical significance of research findings.

Partial Correlation

A numerical index that reflects the relationship between two variables with the removal of the influence of a third variable (called a mediating or confounding variable).

Absolute Value

A numerical value without regard to its sign, often represented as the distance of a number from zero on the real number line.

One-tailed

A one-tailed test in statistics is a hypothesis test where the region of rejection is on only one side of the sampling distribution, focusing on a direction of interest.