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A 38-year-old female patient is admitted to

A 38-year-old female patient is admitted to the medical unit with an 8-year history of ulcerative colitis (chronic inflammatory bowel disease [IBD]). She normally weighs 140 lb. She has lost 10% of her body weight in the past month and is experiencing abdominal pain, fatigue, and persistent diarrhea. She is now not able to tolerate food orally and is very nauseated. She is on adalimumab subcutaneously once per month. A continuous tube feeding of Isosource HN is infusing at 45 mL/hr for the next 5 days. She tells the nurse that she is confused about why the nurses are always working with her feeding tube and she has several questions about its use. The patient asks, “Why do you always measure the tube before you use it?” The most appropriate nursing response is: Group of answer choices “If the tube has been pulled back into the esophagus, it can lead to regurgitation, with the fluid then accidentally going into your lungs.” “The paper tests the pH of the fluid in your feeding tube at the bedside. This provides us with some information regarding the position of a feeding tube before we started the feeding.” “Baseline pulse oximetry changes can help SCIENCE HEALTH SCIENCE NURSING NURSING RN 100

 
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