The patient is weight bearing but has left-sided weakness following a left knee injury. The provider has instructed the nurse to educate the patient on the use of a cane. How does the nurse instruct the patient to use the cane?

Two days after undergoing surgery for a ruptured appendix, the patient responds to the nurse in only short, clipped statements, becoming visibly frustrated and angry during a routine vital signs check. Which response by the nurse is most appropriate?

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?