A Patient Is Recovering from an Arthrocentesis of the Right

question 11

Multiple Choice

A patient is recovering from an arthrocentesis of the right knee. The nurse includes which instructions regarding care at home?

• A)Apply warm heat to the site for the first 24 hours.
• B)Ambulate with crutches
• C)Avoid all weight bearing for three to five days
• D)Apply ice to the wound for the first 24 hours

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values in the dataset deviate from the mean.

Standard Error

The typical deviation within the distribution of samples for a statistic, often specifically of the mean.

Standard Deviation

An indicator of the variability within a set of data points, reflecting how much individual points differ from the average.

Population Mean

The total sum of all the values in a population divided by the number of values in that population, serving as a measure of central tendency.