When teaching a client about pancreatic function, the nurse understands that pancreatic lipase performs which function?
Lipase hydrolyses or breaks down fat into fatty acids and glycerol. Lipase is not involved with the transport of fatty acids into the brush border. 
Fat itself triggers cholecystokinin release. Protein breakdown into dipeptides and amino acids is the function of trypsin, not lipase.
Transports fatty acids into the brush border
Breaks down fat into fatty acids and glycerol
Triggers cholecystokinin to contract the gallbladder
Breaks down protein into dipeptides and amino acids