The nurse best maximizes an older adult's potential to avoid developing a postsurgical respiratory infection by
a. walking the patient to the bathroom in-stead of using the bedside commode.
b. encouraging compliance with prescribed antibiotic therapy.
c. evaluating the patient's ability to effec-tively cough and deep breathe.
d. offering fluids every hour while the pa-tient is awake.
C
Older adults have a decrease in the number and effectiveness of cilia in the tracheobronchial tree, which results in increasing difficulty clearing secretions. The other activities also help avoid ate-lectasis and infection, but evaluating the patient's ability to cough and deep breathe can indicate that other treatment measures may be needed postoperatively.
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