While Caring for a Patient Who Has a Spinal Cord

question 21

Multiple Choice

While caring for a patient who has a spinal cord injury, the nurse obtains assistance to logroll the patient.The nurse intervenes when observing the assistant prepare for the logroll by standing at which patient location?

• A)The feet
• B)The head
• C)The waist
• D)The thighs

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Definitions:

Bootstrapping

Bootstrapping is a resampling technique used in statistics to estimate the distribution of a statistic by repeatedly sampling with replacement from the data set and calculating the statistic for each sample.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points used in a statistical sample.

Bootstrap Standard Error

A method for estimating the standard error of a statistic by resampling with replacement from the original data.

Bootstrap Distribution

A statistical technique that resamples a dataset to create a distribution for estimating the sampling distribution.