A nurse reviews labs for a chronic pancreatitis patient and notes fasting glucose 220 mg/dL. What does this indicate?

You teach a client starting omeprazole. Which statement shows correct understanding?

  A jury is deciding if a defendant is guilty. The defendant is actually guilty, but the jury finds them not guilty. What type of error is this?  

A post-TURP patient on continuous bladder irrigation (CBI) suddenly has bright-red urine with large clots, HR 118, BP 88/52. What is the nurse’s priority?

A patient reports shoulder pain following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Which explanation should the nurse provide?

A patient newly started on tamsulosin for BPH stands up and becomes dizzy. What is the priority action?

  When calculating the mean, what would happen to the value of the mean if you increased the number of data points in the sample (the denominator), but the summed data point value (the numerator) stayed the same?  

  Within the normal curve, a z score that lands in the left tail would be considered  

  A pharmaceutical company is testing a new drug for treating depression. They use a strict p value threshold (p < .01 instead of p < .05). How does this affect Type I and Type II errors?  

  A psychologist is testing whether sleep deprivation affects memory recall. If they hypothesize that sleep deprivation either increases or decreases recall ability, what type of test should they use?