In Addition to Identifying Responses to Actual or Potential Health

question 16

Multiple Choice

In addition to identifying responses to actual or potential health problems, what is another purpose of the diagnosing step in the nursing process?

• A) To collect information about subjective and objective data
• B) To correlate nursing and medical diagnostic criteria
• C) To identify etiologies of health problems
• D) To evaluate mutually developed expected outcomes

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Definitions:

Dependent Variable

In an experiment, this is the variable anticipated to vary as a result of alterations made to the independent variable.

Explained Variation

The portion of the total variation in a dataset that is accounted for by the model's predictors.

Unexplained Variation

The part of the total variation in a data set that cannot be attributed to the variables considered in a study.

Coefficient Of Determination

A measure that assesses the proportion of the variance in the dependent variable that is predictable from the independent variable(s).