While Educating a Patient with Diabetes About Complex Carbohydrates, a Nurse

question 36

Multiple Choice

While educating a patient with diabetes about complex carbohydrates, a nurse teaches that complex carbohydrates require the body to work harder to break them down to use for energy, helping to maintain a more consistent blood glucose level. The nurse identifies an example of a complex carbohydrate as

• A) Bananas.
• B) Legumes.
• C) Fruit juices.
• D) Processed baked goods.

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Standard Normal Variable

A random variable that follows a normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.

Z-score

A measure of how many standard deviations an element is from the mean of its distribution.

Standard Normal Curve

A specific instance of a normally distributed curve where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Percentile

A statistical measure indicating the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.