The nurse is caring for an older client who has returned from the operating room. Which intervention would be a priority for this client?
1. Postoperative teaching
2. Monitoring the client for reduced temperature
3. Preventing visitation
4. Determining the client's likes for dinner
Answer: 2
1. Postoperative teaching is completed prior to surgery.
2. The older client may be more sensitive to the cold of the surgical suite because of physiological changes of aging and needs to be monitored closely until a normal temperature returns.
3. The nurse does not prevent visitation.
4. A postoperative client is NPO until fully recovered from anesthesia.
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