When providing care for a postoperative patient, it is important for the nurse to include which postoperative exercise?
a. Turning every 4 hours
b. Completing leg exercises once daily
c. Repeating individual leg exercises 20 times
d. Performing exercises with the unaffected extremities
D
A leg unaffected by surgery can be exercised safely unless the patient has preexisting phlebothrombosis (blood clot formation) or thrombophlebitis (inflammation of the vein wall).
Instruct the patient to turn every 2 hours from side to back to the other side while awake. Have the patient continue to practice exercises at least every 2 hours while awake and repeat exercises 5 times. Instruct the patient to coordinate turning and leg exercises with diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry, and coughing exercises.
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