A Patient with an Abdominal Mass Is Scheduled for a Biopsy

question 2

Multiple Choice

A patient with an abdominal mass is scheduled for a biopsy. The patient has difficulty understanding the nurse's comments and asks, "What do you mean? What are they going to do?" Assessment findings include tremulous voice, respirations 28, and pulse 110. What is the patient's level of anxiety?

• A) Mild
• B) Moderate
• C) Severe
• D) Panic

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Definitions:

Box Plot

A visual representation of the distribution of a dataset that shows the median, quartiles, and outliers, presenting a five-number summary of the dataset.

5-number Summary

A descriptive statistic that provides a quick overview of a dataset's distribution through five key numbers: minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile, and maximum.

Interquartile Range

The measure of variability which is the difference between the third quartile and the first quartile in a dataset, indicating the spread of the middle 50%.

Percentiles

Values or scores below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations fall.