The Nurse Is Preparing to Give an Intramuscular Injection to the Patient

question 15

Multiple Choice

The nurse is preparing to give an intramuscular injection to the patient in room 320.The unregulated care provider (UCP) comes to the medication room and tells the nurse that the patient in room 316 is very angry with his roommate and is threatening to hit him.How should the nurse respond?

• A) Tell the UCP to calm the patient down until she can get there.
• B) Have the angry patient's roommate moved to another location.
• C) Tell the angry patient to calm down until she can get there.
• D) Tell the angry patient that he has to act civilized in the hospital,and that's that.

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Definitions:

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Horizontal Specialization

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