When the nurse is preparing to provide preoperative teaching to a deaf patient, what action by the nurse is best?

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Patients who are deaf or have low English proficiency are entitled to professional interpretation by federal law. Printed material may be helpful but not if the patient has low literacy/low health literacy. Recorded material may be an option is the patient has some hearing and the recordings are amplified. Family members are not used as interpreters.

When the Nurse Is Preparing to Provide Preoperative Teaching to a Deaf