A Nurse Believes a New Mouth Care Procedure (MCP) Is

question 29

Multiple Choice

A nurse believes a new mouth care procedure (MCP) is causing more mouth problems than it is helping to avoid. Which of the following must be present for the nurse to go to administration with confidence that the new mouth care procedure (MCP) is causing problems? (Select all that apply.)

• A)A plausible explanation of how the new MCP could cause harm
• B)A strong feeling that the MCP is the cause
• C)Consistently seeing mouth inflammation in many of the patients who have received the MCP
• D)Documentation from patient records that mouth inflammation in clients did not occur until after the new procedure was implemented

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