The nurse begins work by setting priorities of care. What intervention will be the nurse's highest priority?
1.
Insert a straight catheter to relieve the patient's urinary retention.
2.
Perform a bed bath to make the febrile patient more comfortable.
3.
Administer a diuretic to the patient with pulmonary edema.
4.
Ambulate the postoperative patient to prevent complications.
ANS: 3
Pulmonary edema can cause hypoxia, so resolving breathing issues is the highest priority.
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