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

question 25

Multiple Choice

The nurse is preparing to give an intramuscular injection to the patient in room 320.The patient care technician 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.The nurse should:

• A) Tell the patient care technician 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 or else
• D) Tell the angry patient that he has to act civilized in the hospital, and that's that

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