The patient presents to the emergency department (ED) with significant respiratory distress. Decreases in which patient characteristics support a diagnosis of restrictive pulmonary disease? Select all that apply.

A hospitalized patient receiving antibiotic therapy develops severe, foul-smelling diarrhea. A stool culture reveals Clostridium difficile. The nurse is aware the patient is at risk for which complications of a C. difficile infection? Select all that apply.

The nurse provides which instruction to the patient prescribed incentive spirometry following lower limb orthopedic surgery?