The nurse determines that a nasogastric (NG) tube needs irrigation when she:
A) obtains more than 200 mL of residual volume.
B) obtains a small amount of thin watery residual.
C) does not encounter resistance when aspirating the residual.
D) obtains an unusually thick secretions.
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