A Patient Has Been Diagnosed with a Restrictive Lung Disease

question 33

Multiple Choice

A patient has been diagnosed with a restrictive lung disease. Which assessment finding would the nurse expect?

• A) Cough that the patient describes as occasional for the last 2 weeks
• B) Bradycardia
• C) Patient report of increased shortness of breath when walking
• D) Clear lung sounds

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

Sampling Distribution

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Standard Deviation

A statistical measure of the dispersion or variability within a dataset, indicating how spread out the numbers are from the average.

Control Charts

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