The Nurse Is Collecting Data from a Hospital Patient Who

question 21

Multiple Choice

The nurse is collecting data from a hospital patient who has been admitted with pyelonephritis.He is acutely ill with a high fever,chills,nausea,and vomiting.He also has severe pain in the flank area.The primary goal of his treatment is to:

• A) Provide adequate nutrition with a stable body weight.
• B) Provide adequate hydration with pulse and blood pressure within patient norms.
• C) Give pain relief with analgesics and antispasmodics.
• D) Prevent further damage to his kidneys that could lead to renal failure.

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Definitions:

Distribution

The process by which something is spread or dispersed over a certain area or among a group.

Mean

The average value in a set of numbers, determined by dividing the sum of all values by the count of numbers.

Distribution

The process of giving out something to multiple recipients, or the statistical arrangement of values within a dataset.

Mode

The value that occurs most frequently in a given set of data.