Multiple Choice
The nurse is caring for a client who has incisional pain, a poor cough effort, and scattered rhonchi after a thoracotomy. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
A) Assist the client to sit up at the bedside.
B) Splint the client's chest during coughing.
C) Medicate the client with the prescribed morphine.
D) Have the client use the prescribed incentive spirometer.
Correct Answer:
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