The nurse is reviewing a student nurse's charting and notes that the student has documented absent bowel sounds
The nurse reminds the student that in order to document absent bowel sounds, one must auscultate each quadrant at what period of time?
a. 30 seconds
b. 1 minute
c. 2 minutes
d. 5 minutes
D
The criterion for the documentation of absent bowel sounds is that each quadrant is auscultated for 5 minutes.
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Design a Likert-type questionnaire to obtain quantitative data from the same cohort of students about their perceptions of these issues. What will be an ideal response?
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