The Nurse Knows That Manual Lifting Should Only Be Done

question 20

Multiple Choice

The nurse knows that manual lifting should only be done in the following situations:

• A) Patients who are less than 150 lb
• B) Life-threatening situations
• C) Postsurgical patients
• D) Patients who are less than 200 lb

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Definitions:

Bootstrap

A statistical method that involves drawing repeated samples from a set to estimate a characteristic of the population from which it was drawn.

Standard Error

A statistical term that measures the accuracy with which a sample distribution represents a population using the sample mean.

Statistic

A numerical measurement or datum derived from a sample of a population, often used in statistical analyses to infer properties about the entire population.

Resamples

The process of drawing repeated samples from a set of observed data, often used in bootstrapping and other non-parametric statistical methods.