You are writing a teaching plan for a patient you are caring for status post resection of a renal tumor. What would you include in that teaching plan?
A) Postsurgical hygiene
B) Signs and symptoms of rejection
C) To inspect and care for the incision
D) Post surgical urine retention
Ans: C
Feedback: The nurse teaches the patient to inspect and care for the incision and perform other general postoperative care, including activity and lifting restrictions, driving, and pain management. The nurse would not include postsurgical hygiene or postsurgical urine retention in the teaching plan for this patient. There would be no need to teach the signs or symptoms of rejection as there has been no transplant.
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