A Nurse Takes a Telephone Order from a Physician

question 12

Multiple Choice

A nurse takes a telephone order from a physician.Which procedure is best for the nurse to use to avoid errors?

• A)Ask another nurse to listen to the conversation on another telephone.
• B)Repeat the order, write the order verbatim, and read the order back to the physician.
• C)Ask the physician to come to the unit to write the order.
• D)Hold implementation of the order until the order is written by the physician.