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A nurse on the labor and delivery unit is caring for a client following a vaginal examination by the provider which is documented as: –1. Which of the following interpretations of this finding should the nurse make?

A county real estate appraiser wants to develop a statistical model to predict the appraised value of houses in a section of the county called East Meadow. One of the many variables thought to be an important predictor of appraised value is the number of rooms in the house. Consequently, the appraiser decided to fit the simple linear regression model, y hat = b + ax , where y = appraised value of the house ( in thousands of dollars) and x = number of rooms.  Using data collected from a sample of n = 74 houses in East Meadow, the following results were obtained: y hat = 74.8 + 19.72x   Give a practical interpretation of the y-intercept of the least squares line.

A client is beginning to take trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole for a recurrent urinary tract infection.  The nurse should reinforce which instruction regarding this medication?

A client who is taking nitrofurantoin for a urinary tract infection voices a concern to the clinic nurse about voiding brown-colored urine. Which of the following is an appropriate response by the nurse?

A survey of 280 homeless persons showed that 63 were veterans. Construct a 90% confidence interval for the proportion of homeless persons who are veterans.

A nurse is caring for a client who just delivered a newborn. Following the delivery, what is a priority  nursing action should be done to assist good  respirations  for the newborn?

A nurse in a prenatal clinic is teaching a client who has a new prescription for dinoprostone gel. Which of the following statements should the nurse include in the teaching?

SAS was used to compare the high school dropout rates for the 50 states in 1982 and 1984. The box plots generated for these dropout rates are shown below. Compare the center of the distributions and the variation of the distributions for the two years.      

Which statement is  NOT true?

Nicotinic cholinergic receptors are far more common that muscarinic cholinergic receptors. Where is the one location that muscarinic cholinergic receptors are found?