A Client Has Just Been Told That a Colectomy and Ileostomy

question 99

Multiple Choice

A client has just been told that a colectomy and ileostomy are needed to treat a new diagnosis of colon cancer.Which diagnosis should the nurse use to plan this client's preoperative nursing care?

• A) Knowledge Deficit
• B) Risk for Disuse Syndrome
• C) Risk for Perioperative-Positioning Injury
• D) Anticipatory Grieving

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Definitions:

Rejection Region

In hypothesis testing, the range of values for which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.

Population Variances

A measure of the dispersion of all the data points in a population from the mean.

Confidence Interval

A span of numbers, extracted from statistics of a sample, which is probably going to include the value of an unseen population parameter, with a specified level of certainty.

Population Variances

Statistical measures that quantify the spread or dispersion within a set of population data values.