Question

A client who had a cholecystectomy has a t-tube for drainage. the nurse measures the amount of bile drainage from the t tube at the end of each shift. how should the nurse record the drainage?

Answer 1

The nurse should record the T-tube biliary drainage on a separate document from the discharge record.

Why should this be done?

• Because the T-tube biliary drainage record cannot be confused with other records.
• Because the joining of the T-tube biliary drainage record and other records may lead to incorrect conclusions about the individual.

A hospitalized patient may need different drainages that will provide data on urine, bile, and the amount of water in the body, among others that are essential for the optimization of treatment.

For this reason, drainage measurements should be recorded in different documents, avoiding the confusion of data that would lead to incorrect conclusions about the patient.

An example of this is the combination of T-tube biliary drainage data with urine drainage, which can provide incorrect information about the number of salts in the patient's body.

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