Question

a nurse is caring for a 55-year-old postoperative client. the client returns to the icu after surgery intubated and mechanically ventilated with a salem sump nasogastric tube, a foley catheter, and a picc line in place. based on the nurse’s knowledge of the most common hospital-acquired infections, which apparatus is most important to remove first?

Answer 1

Your answer would be the catheter

this is because they can cause uti’s especially if they cause the bladder to be unable to empty correctly

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