Multiple Choice
The ICU charge nurse will evaluate that teaching about hemodynamic monitoring for a new staff nurse has been effective when the new nurse
A) balances and calibrates the hemodynamic monitoring equipment every hour.
B) ensures that the patient is lying supine with the head of the bed flat for all readings.
C) positions the zero-reference stopcock line level with the phlebostatic axis.
D) positions the limb with the catheter insertion site at zero-reference of the stopcock line.
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