A 66-year-old woman has sought care from her primary care provider because of increasingly frequent bouts of vertigo that have culminated in a fall
The nurse at the clinic should recognize that a diagnostic assessment of this woman may benefit from which of the following tests?
A) Auditory brainstem response
B) Audiometry
C) Platform posturography
D) The Rinne test
C
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What difference, if any, exists between a research question and a hypothesis?
a. A research question is practice based, and a hypothesis is theory based. b. A hypothesis attempts to answer the question posed by the research problem. c. A research problem defines clinical research and a hypothesis defines basic research. d. There is no difference between a research problem and a hypothesis.
The nurse who suffers an accidental needle stick following administration of an intramuscular injection to a patient anticipates that facility protocol will suggest immediate treatment with which type of immunotherapy?
a. IgM b. IgD c. Ig A d. IgG
Which question is most important for the nurse to ask a patient before administering a new drug?
a. "Are you allergic to any drugs?" b. "Do you know what this drug is for?" c. "When was the last time you ate or drank?" d. "What other drugs have you taken in the last 24 hours?"
Which of the following are the factors, exposures, characteristics, and behaviors that deter-mine patterns of disease?
1. Descriptive epidemiology 2. Analytic epidemiology 3. Distribution 4. Determinants