When planning care, the nurse should identify which client as needing logrolling for position changes?
1. A client with documented pneumonia
2. The client who has had abdominal surgery
3. The client who fell from a house, sustaining a fractured tibia
4. A client who has a severe headache from hypertensive crisis
Correct Answer: 3
Rationale 1: There is no physiological reason why a client with pneumonia would need to be logrolled.
Rationale 2: There is no physiological reason why a client recovering from abdominal surgery would need to be logrolled.
Rationale 3: The logrolling technique is used in moving any client who may have sustained a spinal injury. Of these clients, the most concern is for the client who fell from a house.
Rationale 4: There is no physiological reason why the client with a headache would need to be logrolled.
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