During postmortem care, the client's family instructs the nurse not to put the dentures in the client's mouth. Which should the nurse explain to the family?
1. It will take a minute to clean and package the dentures.
2. Clients usually want their dentures in place for viewing.
3. Dentures must accompany the body to the funeral home.
4. Hospital policy states all personal items go with the body.
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1. The nurse requests a minute or two to cleanse the dentures and package them for the family because the family is entitled to all the client's personal items. Dentures and eyeglasses are especially important personal items the nurse gives to the family or legal representative. The nurse documents the recipient of the dentures, the time, and the date.
2. Clients usually want their dentures in place for viewing; as a courtesy, the nurse inserts dentures for family viewing in the hospital before disposition of the body and then relinquishes the dentures before the family leaves.
3 and 4. Dentures do not have to go to the funeral home or with the body to the mor-gue.
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