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In a response to a call light, you enter a room to find a 68 year-old...

In a response to a call light, you enter a room to find a 68 year-old patient on the floor next to the bed. The patient is in his first day post-operative for surgical resection of the colon, he had slept all light without compliant, and the report states that he had not been agitated or confused but doing well. a. What assumptions, if any, can you make about this situation/ b. What are the questions that you need to ask?

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