The nurse caring for a patient with a 3-day postoperative bowel resection observes that the suction apparatus is not working and the patient is becoming distended.The initial implementation should be to:

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The simplest implementation is always best to do initially.Change the patient's position.Any tube adjustment is done later and with very small amounts.Irrigation may also be done later but with 30 to 40 ml of normal saline.

The Nurse Caring for a Patient with a 3-Day Postoperative