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Medical-Surgical Nursing · Chapter 6

Sequence Is a Nursing Intervention

Give the inhaled antibiotic first and you have deposited an expensive drug onto a wall of mucus, then knocked it straight back out with the vest. Order the therapies in the sequence you would actually carry them out, then switch tabs and screen a post-operative sleep apnea patient whose overnight orders are half safe and half lethal.
Order matters
Work the left panel. Reasoning appears here.