Which of the Following Is an Example of the Nurse

question 36

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of the nurse who is utilizing the core competency use informatics when providing patient care?

• A)searching through a database of articles to find current research on wound care
• B)documenting the effectiveness of pain medication for a patient
• C)discussing the effectiveness of bedside physical therapy with the therapist
• D)changing the sharps container in a patient's room

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Central Tendency

A statistical measure that identifies a single value as representative of the middle of a dataset, commonly the mean, median, or mode.

Outliers

Data points that lie an abnormal distance from other values in a random sample from a population, often indicating a measurement or transcription error, or a novel phenomenon.

Variance

Measures the variability or spread of a set of data points around their mean; it's calculated as the average of the squared differences from the Mean.