Which Action Should the Nurse Take When Beginning Bladder Training

question 21

Multiple Choice

Which action should the nurse take when beginning bladder training using scheduled voiding?

• A) Offer the patient a bedpan every 2 hours while she is awake.
• B) Increase the voiding interval by 30 to 60 minutes each week.
• C) Frequently ask the patient whether she has the urge to void.
• D) Increase the frequency between voiding even if urine leakage occurs.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values; indicates how much the values in a data set differ from the mean.

Variability

A measure of how much scores in a data set differ from each other and from the mean, indicating the spread or dispersion of the data points.

Sample Means

The arithmetic average of a set of values or measurements taken from a sample of a larger population.

Z-test

An analytical procedure in statistics that checks for differences between the means of two groups when the variances are established and there is a considerable number of samples.