The Patient's Bill of Rights includes the right to: (SELECT ALL ANSWERS THAT APPLY)

A) Open mail and make personal phone calls
B) Have privacy and visitors
C) Insult staff and seek legal advice
D) Refuse treatment and come and go ad lib unless committed
E) Be identified as a client
F) Choose one's own nurse


A, B, D

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What type of hypothesis is "Postoperative pediatric patients who use TENS (transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation) will have a different level of pain than pediatric postoperative patients who do not use TENS"?

1. Simple and directional. 2. Complex and directional. 3. Simple and nondirectional. 4. Complex and nondirectional.

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Which of the following is a fundamental belief of those who hold to the positivist paradigm?

A) The researcher is objective and independent of those being studied B) The researcher cannot interact with those being studied C) The researcher instructs those being studied to be objective in providing information D) The distance between the researcher and those being researched is minimized to enhance the interactive process

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The two scales that are recommended for assessment of agitation and sedation in adult critically ill patients are the

a. Ramsay Scale and Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS). b. Ramsay Scale and Motor Activity Assessment Scale (MAAS). c. Riker Sedation-Agitation Scale (SAS) and the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS). d. Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) and Motor Activity Assessment Scale (MAAS).

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