The Nurse Is Caring for a 4-Year-Old Who Recently Returned

question 73

Multiple Choice

The nurse is caring for a 4-year-old who recently returned from a bronchoscopy to remove a swallowed nickel.Which of the following observations would require an immediate intervention?

• A)Patient coughs up blood-tinged sputum
• B)Patient is drowsy but arousable
• C)Pulse = 106 beats/minute
• D)Respiratory rate = 26 breaths/minute

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Definitions:

SSE

Stands for Sum of Squared Errors, a measure used to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Two-Tail

In statistics, a two-tail test is a method in which the critical area of a distribution is two-sided and tests whether a sample is greater than or less than a certain range of values.

Independent Samples T-Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two independent samples.

Sum of Squares for Error

The sum of the squared differences between the observed values and the predicted values in a dataset, used in statistical analysis.