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The nurse is conducting an assessment on a client who is 36 hours postoperative following an appendectomy. During the assessment, the nurse is unable to hear any bowel sounds. The client denies passing flatus. Which action is most appropriate by the nurse?
A) Encouraging the client to increase solid food intake to promote peristalsis
B) Encouraging the client to increase fluid intake to promote peristalsis
C) Withholding food and fluid intake until intestinal motility has returned
D) Encouraging the client to decrease the amount of oral intake
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Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, Volume I

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I serious appreciate your assistance, I'll mark my topic solved
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