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The nurse will be teaching self-management to patients after gastric bypass surgery. Which information will the nurse plan to include?

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After vertical banded gastroplasty, a 42-year-old male patient returns to the surgical nursing unit with a nasogastric tube to low, intermittent suction and a patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) machine for pain control.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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