According to Petty and Cacioppo (1986), humor tends to operate via the ________________ route to persuasion.

A  patient comes to the emergency department with complaints of inability to breathe and has a sharp pain in the left side of his chest. The assessment findings include cyanosis, tachypnea, tracheal deviation to the right, and absent breath sounds over the left chest. The nurse interprets that these assessment findings are consistent with:

When an older adult patient is alert and oriented to person and place only, which instrumental activity of daily living would the nurse expect to assess? (Select all that apply).

The nurse is interviewing a cognitively intact older adult. Which questions will be included in the screening for elder abuse or neglect? (Select all that apply)

The nurse is teaching a group of patients about the effects of smoking cigarettes. Which effects of smoking will be included in the teaching? (Select all that apply)

A young adult patient at the outpatient clinic states, “I feel so sad all of the time. I’m unhappy even doing things I used to like to do.” Which question should the nurse ask next?

The nurse is assessing the joints of an older adult who states, “I have a long family history of arthritis, and my joints hurt.” The nurse suspects that she has osteoarthritis. Which of these are symptoms of osteoarthritis? (Select all that apply).

The nurse is teaching a group of middle-aged adults about the risk factors for stroke. What will be included in the teaching?  (Select all that apply)

A 90-year-old patient tells the nurse that he cannot remember the names of the medications he is taking or for what reason he is taking them. The best response from the nurse would be:

Consider 3 data points in a linear regression problem. The ground truth labels for the inputs are . Estimate the parameters