The nurse is planning care for the 78-year-old patient with recurrent fecal impaction. The patient has prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bone. In addition to palliative chemotherapy, the patient receives a fentanyl transdermal patch and intravenous hydromorphone. The patient is neutropenic and thrombocytopenic. The nurse works with the provider to plan which intervention to manage the opioid-induced constipation and subsequent fecal impaction?
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