The nurse caring for a client with a traumatic arm amputation knows that care will be significantly different from other clients with amputations because
a. clients with traumatic amputations are usually young and get well fast.
b. the postoperative complication rate is lower than with venous insufficiency.
c. the surgery to repair the limb is not as involved as with arterial insufficiency.
d. there was no time beforehand to grieve the loss of the limb.
D
In a planned amputation, the client has some time before the operation to grieve the upcoming loss of limb and to begin to incorporate this into a new self-identity. With traumatic amputations, the client has no warning and no time to grieve or to adjust beforehand.
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