When a nurse is initiating IV therapy, which site on an adult requires a physician's prescrip-tion before obtaining venous access?
A. Back of the client's hand
B. In the client's arm or hand on his or her dominant side
C. Client's arm or hand on the same side as a mastectomy
D. In or over the client's antecubital fossa area of joint flexion
C
The lymph drainage of the upper extremity on the same side as where a mastectomy or axillary node dissection has been performed previously is poor, increasing the client's risk for infection, thrombosis, and lymphedema in that extremity.
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