During Assessment of a Patient Who Is New to the Critical

question 24

Multiple Choice

During assessment of a patient who is new to the critical unit, the nurse observes perianal ecchymosis.The nurse suspects the patient has a

• A) pelvic fracture.
• B) bladder trauma.
• C) rectal laceration.
• D) spleen laceration.

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Definitions:

Randomized Block Design

An experimental setup that arranges subjects into blocks based on certain attributes before randomly assigning treatments, to reduce variation.

Treatments

In the context of experimentation, treatments refer to the different conditions applied to groups in an experiment to study their effects on outcomes.

Spearman's Rank Correlation

A non-parametric measure of rank correlation that assesses the strength and direction of association between two ranked variables.

Productivity

The rate at which goods or services are produced, often considered in terms of output per unit of input.