As a Patient Admitted to the Eating Disorders Unit Undresses

question 11

Multiple Choice

As a patient admitted to the eating disorders unit undresses, a nurse observes that the patient's body is covered by fine, downy hair. The patient weighs 32 kg and is 162 cm. Which term should be documented?

• A) Amenorrhea
• B) Alopecia
• C) Lanugo
• D) Stupor

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Definitions:

Percentile

In statistics, this term refers to the threshold under which a specific percentage of data within a collection is observed.

Interquartile Range

The difference between the 75th and 25th percentiles of a dataset, representing the spread of the middle 50% of the data.

Tchebysheff's Theorem

A statistical theorem stating that for any distribution, the proportion of outcomes within k standard deviations of the mean is at least 1-1/k^2 for k>1.

Measure Of Shape

Statistical indicators that describe how a dataset is distributed along the axis, including skewness and kurtosis, which indicate asymmetry and the peakedness of the data distribution, respectively.