Directions: Read the paragraph below. Then select the number of the sentence that contains the main idea.   (1)Few things are more boring than standing in line. (2)Luckily, some ways have been found to make waiting in line more bearable. (3)Airline personnel now use hand-held devices to look up customers’ information, scan or print boarding passes, and direct passengers to the appropriate area. (4)One New York bank pays five dollars to any customer who has waited more than five minutes. (5)Fast-food restaurants have found that timing the work of fast-food workers motivates crews to work more quickly, resulting in lines that move faster. (6)Dividing tasks so that one person takes an order while another begins to prepare it also gets food to customers more quickly. (7)In amusement parks, customers complain less when signs explain how long people can expect to wait. (8)Also, live entertainment such as a magician or juggler cheers people waiting in long lines.   The sentence that expresses the main idea is

A type of graph that that displays components of a whole.

Community Physician’s Clinic have received several complaints that patients have to wait an inordinate amount of time to see specialists in the clinic. The administrator asks the HIM manager to construct a graph that will show how long patients had to wait to see the gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, and dermatologist. She wanted the graph to include the number of patients who waited more than four weeks, three to four weeks, one to two weeks, less than one week, and the number who were able to have an appointment on the day they called for all three specialties. Which would be the best graph to show this information?

A type of diagram that is used to display frequency distributions for continuous numerical data (interval or ratio data).

A type of observation in which the researcher listens and sometimes talks with the research subject in as natural an environment as possible is called _____________. 

What scale of measurement is depicted in the “Lab Results” table below?  1 = HIV Positive 2 = HIV Negative 3 = HIV Inconclusive

The patient has been admitted with advanced cirrhosis. Which data would be most important for the nurse to report to the health care provider?

Autonomous persons, the argument goes, have a right to determine what may or many not be done to them—not just to their bodies and to their property, but to their private lives. This is a quote from chapter 4 (pp. 170 – 176). Which one of the following is correct?

Which one of the following is the primary benefit of the form that is discussed on p. 20?

On p. 124, Goldman writes, The death of a patient, inevitable as it is in many cases, may appear as an ultimate defeat to the medical art, as something to be fought by any means, even after life has lost all value and meaning for the patient himself. Who is Goldman saying may have this thought?