Which statement would the nurse manager of a hematology clinic evaluate as indicating that a newly employed nurse understands the process of thrombopoiesis?
1. Thrombopoiesis is a response to extrinsic factors that initiates the clotting cascade.
2. Thrombopoiesis is the process that mitigates blood loss due to injury to any blood vessel.
3. Thrombopoiesis is the development of three blood cell lines.
4. Thrombopoiesis is platelet development from hematopoietic stem cells to fully mature platelets.
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Rationale 1: Thrombopoiesis does not describe the initiation of the clotting cascade.
Rationale 2: The process that mitigates blood loss due to injury to any blood vessel is called hemostasis.
Rationale 3: Hematopoiesis refers to blood cell development.
Rationale 4: Thrombopoiesis refers to platelet development, one component of blood cell development.
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