When instructing a client about postoperative exercises, a nurse should tell the client to:
A. Turn every 4 hours
B. Complete leg exercises once daily
C. Repeat individual leg exercises 20 times
D. Perform active range-of-motion exercises to the unaffected extremities
D
D. Leg unaffected by surgery can be safely exercised unless client has preexisting phlebothrombosis (blood clot formation) or thrombophlebitis (inflammation of vein wall).
A. Instruct client to turn every 2 hours from side to back to other side, while awake.
B. Have client continue to practice exercises at least every 2 hours while awake. Client is instructed to coordinate turning and leg exercises with diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry, and coughing exercises.
C. Repeat five times.
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