Teaching a Patient to Use an Incentive Spirometer

The nurse is correct when placing the postoperative client in which position for the client to perform incentive spirometry exercises?

Fowler's

The nurse is preparing to teach a client how to perform incentive spirometry. Which concepts should the nurse include?

Incentive spirometry provides visual reinforcement for deep breathing.

The nurse explains to a client with a history of asthma why the health care provider has prescribed an incentive spirometer to be used postoperatively. What is the therapeutic effect of using this device?

It teaches the client to take deep breaths after surgery.

The nurse is teaching a postoperative client how to use an incentive spirometer. What type of complication may be avoided with the proper use of this device?

Pneumonia.

The nurse observes the client's correct use of the incentive spirometer when what occurs?

The client takes slow, deep inhalations into the incentive spirometry tube 5 to 10 times per hour.