NCLEX Practice Questions: Quiz 546

A registered nurse is precepting a new nurse in the intensive care unit. The client is sedated with propofol. on a mechanical ventilator, and is receiving enteral feeding via nasogastric tube. The new nurse performs interventions to prevent aspiration. The preceptor should intervene if the new nurse performs which of the following actions?
- 1. Assesses gastric residual volumes every 4 hours
- 2. Measures the number of centimeters the feeding tube is secured at the nare every 4 hours
- 3. Requests that the physician change the client from continual to bolus feedings
- 4. Uses a sedation scale to titrate down the sedation (if possible)

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