The nurse is providing discharge teaching for a client who is at risk for mild hypernatremia. What action is most important for the nurse to teach the client?
a. "Weigh yourself every morning and every night."
b. "Check your radial pulse twice a day."
c. "Read food labels to determine sodium content."
d. "Bake or grill the meat rather than frying it."
C
Most prepackaged foods have high sodium content. Teaching the client how to read labels and calculate the sodium content of food can help him or her adhere to the prescribed sodium restric-tion and can prevent hypernatremia. Daily self-weighing and checking the pulse are methods of identifying manifestations of hypernatremia, but they do not prevent it. The addition of sub-stances during cooking increases the sodium content of a meal, not the method of cooking.
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