A 2-Year-Old Child Has a Lead Level of 25 Mcg/dL

question 86

Multiple Choice

A 2-year-old child has a lead level of 25 mcg/dL from a fingerstick specimen obtained at a health department screening.Which instruction should a nurse provide to the child's parent or caregiver?

• A)"A follow-up test with a venous specimen needs to be completed within 1 month."
• B)"Anyone in your family who has contact with this child will need treatment."
• C)"No additional action is needed at this time since this is a normal result."
• D)"This result is high enough to require hospitalization and immediate treatment."

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Definitions:

Prediction Interval

A range of values within which a future observation is expected to fall, with a certain probability.

Confidence Interval

A spread of values obtained from statistical scrutiny of samples, presumed to potentially contain the value of an undetermined population parameter.

Confidence Interval Estimate

An interval of values calculated from a sample that is expected to include the value of an unseen population parameter, with a certain degree of confidence.

Prediction Interval

An estimate of an interval in which future observations will fall, with a certain probability, given what has already been observed.