[Expert Solution]: of 16 The nurse reviews a patient’s…

Question 11 of 16 The nurse reviews a patient’s medical record to better understand the patient’s diagnoses and medications prior to nasogastric tube insertion. The nurse learns the patient is on chronic pantoprazole therapy, a proton pump inhibitor (PPI). The nurse plans ahead to do which of the following to confirm placement of the nasogastric tube? a.) The nurse will first do a pH test on the gastric aspirate even though the result may be altered by pantoprazole. If the range is normal, no further confirmation is needed. b.) The nurse will first do a pH test on the gastric aspirate. Regardless of the range, a follow-up x-ray will be done. c.) The nurse will not do a pH test because an x-ray is always done first. d.) The nurse will not do a pH test because PPIs alter the normal pH, which makes this test inaccurate.