A family member of a patient who has returned to the special unit following renal transplantation is alarmed by blood in the urine of the patient. The nurse's best explanation would be that the hematuria is:
1. related to the immunosuppressant drugs taken prior to transplantation.
2. a normal postoperative expectation.
3. not blood at all but dye injected during surgery.
4. a small vessel that may be bleeding, but will coagulate as urine flow increases.
2
Blood in the urine is an expected postoperative expectation.
PTS: 1 DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: 880
OBJ: 5 TOP: Postoperative Care for Transplant Recipients
KEY: Nursing Process Step: Implementation
MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity
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