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What Intervention Should the Nurse Implement When Suctioning a Child

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What intervention should the nurse implement when suctioning a child with a tracheostomy?


A) Encouraging the child to cough to raise the secretions before suctioning.
B) Selecting a catheter with a diameter three-fourths as large as the diameter of the tracheostomy tube.
C) Ensuring that each pass of the suction catheter take no longer than 10 seconds.
D) Allowing the child to rest after every 5 times the suction catheter is passed.

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