A nursing student enters C.W.'s room and auscultates her abdomen. She looks at you andexcitedly announces that she hears good bowel sounds
You take the opportunity to teach her the proper method of auscultating bowel sounds on a patient who has NGT to low-continuous
wall suction.
How would you correct her error?
• Tell the nursing student that it is easy to forget that when the NGT is connected to suction, the
suction might be misinterpreted as bowel sounds.
• Show her how to turn off the suction momentarily to listen to bowel sounds.
• Remind her that, in general, the more the bowel is manipulated, the longer it takes the peristalsis
to resume. Bowel sounds should return between the third and the fifth postoperative days.
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