Question

The nurse provides 240 mL of feeding through a client's gastrostomy tube. What should the nurse do to ensure that the tube remains patent? O Clamp the feeding tube. Follow the last amount of feeding with 30 mL of water Follow the feeding with 60 mL of sterile normal saline. 0 Position the client upright for 30 minutes after the feeding. Question 7 0.5 pts After inserting a nasogastric tube, the client is not coughing despite the nurse not being able to auscultate sounds over the epigastric area. What action should the nurse take? Remove the tube and insert it through the other naris. Look inside the client's mouth Place the end of the tube in a container of water Advance the tube another 5 cm (2 in.)

Answer 1

1. Flush the clients gastrostomy tube with water before and after any tube feeding,before and after any medications .should be done done atleast for every 8 hours.Here in the given question the answer is option number 2. Follow the last amount of feeding with 30 ml of water
2. After inserting a naso gastric tube nurses can verify the placement of tube by 2 of the following methods Ask the patient to hum or talk(coughing or choking means the tube is properlly placed)OR use an irrigation syringe to aspire gastric contents; chest x ray ;lower the open end of the naso gastric tube into a cup of water ,so that the bubbles present in the water indicates the correct placement of tube .here the correct answer is option 3 that means place the end of thee tube in a container of water
3. While removing a naso gastric tube the client begins to cough .It happens due to entering of stomach contents to throat and lungs when you pull out the tube .Flushing the tube with water helps to prevent the cough occurs during the removal of naso gastric tube . In this question the correct answer is option 4