Multiple Choice
The nurse is caring for a patient with a spinal cord injury and notices that the patient's hips have a tendency to rotate externally when the patient is supine.To help prevent injury secondary to this rotation,what can the nurse use?
A) A trochanter roll.
B) The trapeze bar.
C) Hand rolls.
D) Hand-wrist splints.
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