The nurse providing instructions to a client using an incentive spirometer tells the client to sustain the inhaled breath for 3 seconds. What statement by the client indicates successful teaching

B. "It will keep the small airways open."

Explanation:

A patient who has a lung disease or undergo lung surgery can make use of what is called INCENTIVE SPIROMETER reason been that this

SPIROMETER helps to Effectively measure the inhalation of air into the lungs as well as the exhalation of air out of the lungs by enabling the lungs to be clear which will inturn facilitate the recovery of the lungs which is why the nurse told the client to sustain or hold the inhaled breath for 3 seconds because the nurse knew that when the client or the patient sustain the inhaled breath for 3 seconds IT WILL HELP TO KEEP THE SMALL AIRWAYS OF THE CLIENT LUNG OPEN.

Therefore the statement by the client which indicated the successful teaching by the nurse is "IT WILL KEEP THE SMALL AIRWAYS OPEN"