A Patient Is Received on a Nursing Unit as a Transfer

question 30

Multiple Choice

A patient is received on a nursing unit as a transfer from the telemetry unit,and the HUC is informed that the patient's old records are missing.The most likely place for staff to find the missing records would be the:

• A)health information management systems (HIMS)department.
• B)risk management office.
• C)floor from which the patient was transferred.
• D)patient's doctor's office.

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