Prep U Post op
A client who underwent a mastectomy has been admitted to the surgical care unit after discharge from the postanesthesia care unit. What is the nurse's priority assessment?
Assess the vital signs and oxygen saturation levels
Which food would be the best to offer first to a child who has had a tonsillectomy?
Blue ice pop
A client returns from the operating room with a partial-thickness skin graft on the left arm. The donor tissue was taken from their left hip. In planning the client's immediate postoperative care, which interventions would the nurse include? Select all that apply.
Elevate the left arm and provide complete rest of the grafted area. Administer pain medication every 4 hours as ordered for pain in the donor site. Monitor the pulse in the left arm every 4 hours.
