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The Nurse Working with a Student Nurse Is Providing Care

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The nurse working with a student nurse is providing care for a client requiring mechanical ventilation.The student nurse asks the meaning of assist control.Which response by the nurse is the most appropriate?


A) "Assist control is a means of delivering ventilation that delivers a preset volume and/or pressure each time the client begins an inspiration."
B) "Assist control allows the client to breathe independently,but supplies a breath if the client does not begin an inhalation in a specified period of time."
C) "Assist control is used when weaning a client from the ventilator because the client must exercise the muscles of respiration in order to get a full breath."
D) "Assist control is often used when a client is receiving a paralytic agent."

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