A Nurse Is Reviewing Pathophysiology Concepts with a Group of Nursing

question 39

Multiple Choice

A nurse is reviewing pathophysiology concepts with a group of nursing students. The nurse knows students understand the teaching that has been performed when they identify that a patient who has abdominal pain and who demonstrates a serum conjugated bilirubin level of 1.2 mg/dL most likely

• A)is a newborn that needs phototherapy.
• B)has a diagnosis that causes large amounts of red blood cell death.
• C)has a disorder of the biliary system.
• D)has a small bowel obstruction.

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Definitions:

Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points, calculated as the average squared deviation from the mean of the data.

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Range

The difference between the highest and lowest values in a dataset, indicating the spread of the data.

Variability

A statistical measure that describes the dispersion or spread of data points in a data set.