A four-year-old child is being emotionally prepared for open heart surgery. The nurse will want to provide the child with which information?
1. Who will be performing the surgery
2. What the surgical procedure will entail
3. The purpose of the heart-lung machine
4. What the ICU will look and sound like when the child wakes up
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Rationale 1: The parents know the name of the surgeon. It will mean nothing to a four-year-old child.
Rationale 2: The child will be asleep during surgery and therefore does not need to know about the procedure.
Rationale 3: This is beyond the understanding of a four-year-old.
Rationale 4: The child should be prepared in terms of what she will see, hear, smell, or feel.
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