The nurse is preparing an elderly client to get out of bed on the first postoperative day after a total hip replacement. Which of the following activities would be most helpful to the client
A. Demonstrate the use of a walker with partial weight bearing.
B. Explain to the client that she will be lifted out of bed to a chair.
C. Reassure the client that she will be assisted to walk to the hall.
D. Demonstrate the swing-through crutch-walking gait with limited weight hearin