A Patient Has a Colostomy in the Descending (Sigmoid)colon and Wants

question 27

Multiple Choice

A patient has a colostomy in the descending (sigmoid) colon and wants to control bowel evacuation and possibly stop wearing an ostomy pouch.To help achieve this goal,the nurse should teach the patient to:

• A) Call the primary care provider if the stoma becomes pale, dusky, or black
• B) Limit the intake of gas-forming foods such as cabbage, onions, and fish
• C) Irrigate the stoma to produce a bowel movement on a schedule
• D) Avoid returning to the use of an ostomy appliance if he becomes ill

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Definitions:

Weibull Distribution

A continuous probability distribution used widely in reliability engineering and failure analysis, which can model various types of data including life data and failure times.

Binomial Distribution

A probability distribution that summarizes the likelihood that a variable will take one of two independent values under a given set of parameters or assumptions.

Normal Distribution

A continuous probability distribution characterized by a symmetric bell-shaped curve, where most observations cluster around the central peak and probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.

Right-Skewed

Describes a distribution of data where the tail on the right side of the histogram is longer or extends further than the tail on the left side, indicating that the median is less than the mean.