The nurse cares for several postoperative patients using patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) pain management with a combination of an opioid and a local anesthetic agent on the first postoperative day.Which patient should the nurse assess first?
A) A patient after a bowel resection for recurrent colon cancer
B) A patient after an internal fixation of an ankle fracture
C) A first-time hospitalized patient after amputation of a leg
D) A patient with emphysema who had a lung tumor resection
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