After Completing Assessments, a Nurse Uses the Data Collected to Identify

question 26

Multiple Choice

After completing assessments, a nurse uses the data collected to identify appropriate nursing diagnoses for a client. For what are the nursing diagnoses used?

• A) Selecting nursing interventions to meet expected outcomes
• B) Establishing a database of information for future comparison
• C) Mutually establishing desired outcomes of the plan of care
• D) Evaluating the effectiveness of the established plan of care

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Definitions:

Degrees of Freedom

The number of values in the final calculation of a statistic that are free to vary.

Null Hypothesis

A hypothesis that asserts there is no significant difference or effect and serves as the default assumption to be tested against an alternative hypothesis.

Chi-square Statistic

A statistical test used to determine if there's a significant difference between observed frequencies and expected frequencies in categorical data.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information used in the calculation of a statistic, often associated with the complexity of the data.