Part of Nurse Marios nursing care plan is to loosen and remove excessivesecretions in the airway.

11. Mario listens to Richards bilateral sounds and finds that congestion is in the upper lobes of the lungs. The appropriate position to drain the anterior and posterior apical segments of the lungs when Mario does percussion would be:

  • Client lying flat on his back and then flat on his abdomen
  • Client seated upright in bed or on a chair then leaning forward in sitting position then flat on his back and on his abdomen
  • Client lying on his right then left side on Trendelenburg position
  • Client lying on his back then flat on his abdomen on Trendelenburg position


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