It is important to shkae Vacutainer tube after collecting a blood sample so that the sample and additive are properly mixed.
a.True
b.false
b.false
You might also like to view...
The nurse is completing the preoperative checklist for a client who is having surgery. The nurse should notify the surgeon if which laboratory test were missing?
1. MRI results 2. CBC 3. 24-hour urine study 4. Protein chemistry test
An older patient with headaches, dizziness, and ataxia takes meperidine for arthritic pain. What impact does this medication have on this patient's health problems?
1. This medication is not causing the patient's symptoms. 2. This medication is not effective in older patients for pain relief. 3. This medication is more effective to treat pain than aspirin or acetaminophen. 4. This medication causes toxic side effects similar to what the patient is experiencing.
You are assisting with assessments on a group of medical-surgical patients. What patient do you recognize as being at the highest risk for the development of osteomyelitis?
A) A middle-age adult who takes ibuprofen daily for rheumatoid arthritis B) An elderly patient with an infected pressure ulcer in the sacral area C) A 17-year-old football player who had orthopedic surgery 6 weeks prior D) An infant diagnosed with jaundice
A study was designed to examine student attitudes towards research utilisation in nursing practice (Marshall et al 2007). The Nursing Students' Attitudes and Awareness of Research and Development within Nursing Scale was used to collect data from students enrolled at several Australian schools of nursing
1. Examine the 95% confidence intervals for the mean scores for each university. Based on these, are there any statistically significant differences in mean scores between the universities? 2. The effect sizes (Cohen's d) between the university means were as follows: A and B = 0.02; A and C = 0.17; B and C = 0.14. Using Cohen's conventions, are these small, medium or large effect sizes? 3. Based on your knowledge of statistical power, how confident are you in the interpretation of the following results? What is required to improve the power of this study? (F(df=232) = 0.601; p = 0.549). Post hoc analysis found no difference between all pair combinations of universities p > 0.05. Descriptives N Mean Std. deviation Std. error 95% Confidence interval for mean Minimum Maximum Lower bound Upper bound University A 87 130.63 13.52 1.45 127.75 133.51 98.00 164.00 University B 80 130.36 13.95 1.56 127.25 133.46 83.00 157.00 University C 66 128.28 14.69 1.81 124.67 131.89 94.00 158.00 Total 233 129.87 13.98 0.92 128.07 131.68 83.00 164.00 (Adapted from: Marshall AP, Fisher MJ, Brammer J, Eustace P, Grech C, Jones B, Kelly M: Assessing psychometric properties of scales: a case study, J Adv Nurs 59(4):398–406, 2007.) What will be an ideal response?