The nurse recognizes that a postoperative nutritional objective specifically appropriate for a client who experienced a kidney transplant is to: Select all that apply

Question

1. Correct any preexisting deficiencies.
2. Begin the introduction of previously restricted foods.
3. Provide necessary support to promote wound healing.
4. Meet the demands of any existing hypermetabolic process.
5. Minimize the affects of postsurgical nausea and vomiting.

Answer 1

1. Correct any preexisting deficiencies.
2. Begin the introduction of previously restricted foods.
3. Provide necessary support to promote wound healing.
4. Meet the demands of any existing hypermetabolic process.

Rationale: Correct any preexisting deficiencies. This client's postoperative recovery requires adequate nutrition for wound healing, repletion of nutrition stores, and support for the hypermetabolic demands of the surgery. Begin the introduction of previously restricted foods. Patients undergoing renal or hepatic transplantation may have been on a restrictive diet that potentially may be liberalized following surgery when organ function improves. Provide necessary support to promote wound healing. This client's postoperative recovery requires adequate nutrition for wound healing. Meet the demands of any existing hypermetabolic process. This client's postoperative recovery requires adequate nutrition to support the hypermetabolic demands of the surgery. Minimize the affects of postsurgical nausea and vomiting. To minimize the affects of post surgical nausea and vomiting is a goal appropriate for all postsurgical clients, and is not specific to this client.