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Your client has been prescribed Lasix to address his rales, weight gain, and low urine output. What else should you be doing?
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| Have him up in the chair for all meals, ambulating several times a day |
| Keep him on bed rest to let the incisions heal |
| Pull the chest tubes to help with pain management and mobility |
| Continue respiratory treatments - coughing, deep breathing, and incentive spirometer |
| Let respiratory and physical therapies follow up with him |
| Let the patient and his family take charge of respiratory cares |
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