The Nurse Has Completed a Preoperative Assessment for a Patient

question 20

Multiple Choice

The nurse has completed a preoperative assessment for a patient going to surgery and gathers assessment data.Of the following,which would be the most important next step?

• A) Notify the operating suite that the patient has a latex allergy.
• B) Document that the patient had a bath at home this morning.
• C) Ask the nursing assistant to obtain vital signs.
• D) Administer the ordered preoperative intravenous antibiotic.

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