A Provider Is Attempting to Give a Verbal Medication Order

question 5

Multiple Choice

A provider is attempting to give a verbal medication order to a nurse in the hallway outside the patient's room. Which of these actions by the nurse is the most appropriate?

• A) The nurse writes the order down on a piece of scratch paper in her pocket.
• B) The nurse refuses to take the order and walks away.
• C) The nurse acknowledges the order, but asks the provider to make sure to write the order in the patient's medical record before leaving.
• D) The nurse repeats the order back to the physician, hoping to remember it to write it down later.

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Definitions:

Hydrogen Ions

Positively charged ions, or protons, denoted as H+, which are fundamental in determining the acidity or pH level of solutions.

Thylakoid Membrane

The site within chloroplasts that contains chlorophyll and where the light-dependent reactions of photosynthesis occur.

Stroma

The supportive tissue or matrix of an organ, as in the stroma of the ovary, or the dense fluid within the chloroplast where the Calvin cycle occurs in photosynthesis.

Thylakoid Compartment

A membranous structure within chloroplasts of plant cells and cyanobacteria, containing chlorophyll and other pigments for photosynthesis.