With screening or diagnostic instruments, the concept indicating the instruments' ability to correctly identify a "case" (i.e., to screen or diagnose a condition correctly) is:
A) Sensitivity
B) Stability
C) Specificity
D) Sensibility
A
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A. "Do you have any guns in your home?" B. "Does your child have any close friends?" C. "Has your child been hoarding objects?" D. "Is your child ever left alone at home?"
The nurse is assessing the throat of a client with throat pain. In asking the client to stick out the tongue, the nurse is also assessing which cranial nerve?
A) Cranial nerve I B) Cranial nerve V C) Cranial nerve XI D) Cranial nerve XII
The nurse is providing care to a client who is recovering from severe respiratory acidosis and has recently been extubated. Which of the following actions by the nurse provides an optimum environment for this client?
1. Restraining the client 2. Placing the client in a side-lying position 3. Providing a calm, quiet environment 4. Administering narcotics for pain
To promote health of the fetus, the nurse should instruct the woman in the first trimester of pregnancy to do which of the following?
A) Eliminate high-fiber foods B) Eat foods high in folic acid C) Consume saturated fats D) Consume milk products in the last trimester