A Patient Has a Wrist Restraint

question 38

Multiple Choice

A patient has a wrist restraint. Which of the following is it especially important to report to the nurse?

• A) Why the restraint was applied
• B) The person's temperature
• C) The person's respiratory rate
• D) If you could not feel a pulse in the restrained extremity

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values.

Covariance

A measure indicating the extent to which two random variables change together.

Coefficient R

A measure used in statistics to represent the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two variables on a scatter plot.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.