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You arrive to start your shift and you have four patients in addition to orientating a newly hired LPN who will be completing orientation in a couple of days. One patient is post-op day one from cardiac surgery on morphine PCA pump. Another patient is elderly, confused, incontinent, and tries to climb out of bed sometimes. The third patient is alert, oriented, walkie-talkie individual who was admitted for a flare up due to Crohn’s disease and is scheduled for a colonoscopy the next day. Lastly, you just found out that a patient is being admitted from the emergency department for chest pain. After receiving report and briefly reviewing each patient’s chart, how would you prioritize your patients’ care and why? Include the primary nursing intervention/action for each patient and whether or not it can be delegated to the LPN? What specific tasks could you delegate to the LPN for each patient outside the primary intervention/action