A Nurse Who Practices in Rural Settings Has Many Challenges

question 8

Multiple Choice

A nurse who practices in rural settings has many challenges. The characteristics of nursing practice in rural environments include:

• A) Variety/diversity in clinical experiences
• B) Faster pace
• C) Less independence/autonomy
• D) Abundant resources

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Definitions:

Mean

The average value obtained by adding all the data points in a set together and then dividing by the number of data points.

Standard Normal Curve

A symmetric bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of many types of data where the mean is 0 and the standard deviation is 1.

Z-score

An index quantifying the position of a value relative to the average value in a dataset, expressed as the amount of standard deviations away from this mean.

Percentile

A value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls, used to understand and interpret data distributions.