You have just received a postoperative patient from the PACU to the medical-surgical unit. Your patient is an 84-year-old female who had surgery for a left hip replacement
What is a primary concern for this patient in the first few hours on the unit?
A) Ability to ambulate
B) Clean dressings on the surgical site
C) Neurologic status
D) Ability to communicate
Ans: C
Feedback: In the initial hours after admission to the clinical unit, adequate ventilation, hemodynamic stability, incisional pain, surgical site integrity, nausea and vomiting, neurologic status, and spontaneous voiding are primary concerns. A total hip patient does not ambulate during the first few hours on the unit. Dressings are assessed but may have some drainage on them. Ability to communicate is near baseline when the patient is discharged from the PACU.
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