The Nurse Assesses a Patient During Digital Removal of a Fecal

question 19

Multiple Choice

The nurse assesses a patient during digital removal of a fecal impaction.Which patient assessment finding does the nurse determine to be unexpected?

• A) Complaints of abdominal cramping
• B) Large amount of brown, liquid stool
• C) Blood pressure 130/86 mm Hg, stable
• D) Heart monitor showing sinus bradycardia

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Definitions:

Arrival Population

The group of entities, such as people or items, arriving at a service system or facility, ready to be processed or serviced.

Behavior Of Arrivals

Refers to the pattern or distribution of instances or entities arriving at a system or service point, important in queueing theory and operations management.

Distribution Of Arrivals

The statistical distribution that shows how often or at what intervals entities arrive at a system or facility.

M/M/1 Model

A basic queueing model that assumes a single server, Poisson process arrivals, and exponential service times, used to analyze wait times and queue lengths.