The nurse is providing discharge teaching to the patient who will be discharged with a peritoneal dialysis catheter. Which statement indicates a need for further teaching?

“I hope my insurance company will provide me with the sterile gloves I need.”. When performed at home by the patient, the peritoneal catheter dressing change is a clean, not sterile procedure. The nurse should provide additional teaching that the patient does not need sterile gloves. The patient would be correct to state baths will be forgone for showers, to verbalize the need to contact the provider with signs of infection, and to state the importance of hand hygiene.

The nurse is providing discharge teaching to the patient who will...

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