Post Cardiac Surgery

A female patient is being discharged from the hospital following surgery for replacement of a heart valve. She will be placed on long-term warfarin therapy. The nurse is developing the patient’s discharge teaching plan.
    a. List the activities that the nurse should teach the patient to avoid.
    b. Describe the signs and symptoms that would alert the patient to adverse effects of warfarin therapy.
    c. What medications and what herbal supplements should be avoided while the patient is being treated with warfarin?
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