A Patient Is Taking a Vasodilator That Relaxes Smooth Muscles

question 8

Multiple Choice

A patient is taking a vasodilator that relaxes smooth muscles in veins. To help minimize drug side effects, the nurse caring for this patient will:

• A) caution the patient not to get up abruptly.
• B) encourage the patient to increase fluid intake.
• C) tell the patient to report shortness of breath.
• D) warn the patient about the possibility of bradycardia.

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Definitions:

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the strength of a phenomenon or the magnitude of a difference between groups in a study.

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion showing how much a set of observations differ from each other.

Effect Size

A quantitative measure of the magnitude of the difference between groups or the strength of a relationship between variables, often used in research to assess the practical significance of findings.