After Leaving Work,a Nurse Realizes Documentation of Administration of a PRN

question 27

Multiple Choice

After leaving work,a nurse realizes documentation of administration of a PRN medication was omitted.This off-duty nurse phones the unit and tells the nurse,"Please document administration of the medication for me;I forgot to do it.My password is alpha1." The nurse receiving the call should:

• A) fulfill the request.
• B) refer the matter to the charge nurse to resolve.
• C) access the record and document the information.
• D) report the request to the patient's health care provider.

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Definitions:

Random Variable

A variable whose possible values are numerical outcomes of a random phenomenon.

Standard Deviation

An indicator that quantifies the extent to which values in a collection differ from the average, showcasing the degree of spread or divergence among the data points.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, found by adding them together and dividing by the number of terms.

Normal Distribution

Data points nearest to the mean occur more frequently in this symmetric probability distribution, with diminishing occurrences of data points as they deviate from the mean.