The nurse instructs the client to record intake and output at home. Which should the nurse include in client teaching?
1. Allow the client to exclude liquid medicine.
2. Ask the client to save all urine for a full day.
3. Provide written list of food to record as intake.
4. Instruct client to estimate the amount of liquid.
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3. The nurse provides and explains a written list of food to categorize as liquid and to record as intake; the client learns to record food including ice cream, soup, and pre-packaged liquid meals as liquid intake.
1. Liquid medicine is considered fluid intake.
2. All urine is saved for 1 day to collect a 24-hour urine specimen.
4. The nurse instructs the client to measure liquids precisely using standardized mea-suring tools. Prepackaged liquids are usually labeled with the volume of the package.
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