The Nurse Assesses an Adverse Effect of a Medication That

question 12

Multiple Choice

The nurse assesses an adverse effect of a medication that has been administered.No medication error was committed.What is the best plan of the nurse at this time?

• A)Report the adverse effect to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)MedWatch Website.
• B)Report the adverse effect to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)Adverse Event Website.
• C)Report the adverse effect to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)Safe Medicine Website.
• D)Report the adverse effect to the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA)Med MARX Website.

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Definitions:

Correlation

A statistical measure that describes the extent to which two variables change together, but does not imply causation.

PassYds

Abbreviation for Passing Yards, a statistic in football that measures the distance in yards gained from passing plays.

RushYds

A statistic in football referring to the total yards gained by running play.

Pearson's Correlations

A measure of the linear correlation between two variables, represented by a value between -1 and 1 where 1 means a perfect positive correlation and -1 means a perfect negative correlation.