The nurse is preparing a 56-year-old male for a surgery that will take several hours. The nurse performs which intervention to decrease the patient's risk of pressure injury during the procedure?

Apply pads to the patient's heels, sacrum, and shoulders. Pressure injuries occur over bony prominences when the patient is immobile for long periods of time. The best intervention for the patient undergoing surgery is to have protective dressings/pads applied to bony prominences (shoulders, sacrum, and heels). Moving the patient for range of motion exercises, repositioning, and utilizing a alternating pressure mattress are not appropriate interventions during surgery where it is imperative the patient does not move.

The nurse is preparing a 56-year-old male for a surgery that will...

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