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The enterostomal nurse is conducting a teaching session for patients with new colostomies. Today's topic is self-assessment and signs and symptoms that must be immediately reported to the surgeon. Which sign/symptom should the nurse include in this teaching?
Symmetrical
A characteristic of a shape or distribution where one half is a mirror image of the other half, usually about a central point or axis.
Unimodal Distribution
A type of distribution that has a single peak or mode, showing one predominant frequency of data points.
Negatively Skewed Distribution
A distribution shape where the tail is on the left side, indicating that the bulk of values are concentrated on the right.
Mode
The number that occurs the greatest number of times in a series of data.
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