In planning care for the patient who is on a protocol of bleomycin,an antitumor antibiotic,the nurse will add to the care plan an intervention to:

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Bleomycin is cardiotoxic and can cause cardiac arrhythmias;therefore,this would be the highest priority intervention.Chemotherapies that are ototoxic would warrant a hearing test;urinary output and fluid retention should be assessed with most chemotherapy drugs,and especially for those that are nephrotoxic.

In Planning Care for the Patient Who Is on a Protocol