The Nurse Reviewing Charts for Quality Improvement Notes That a Patient

question 9

Multiple Choice

The nurse reviewing charts for quality improvement notes that a patient experienced a complication during labor. The nurse is uncertain whether the labor nurse took the appropriate action during the situation. What is the best method for the nurse to take to determine what the appropriate action should have been?

• A) Call the nurse manager of the labor and delivery unit and ask what the nurse should have done.
• B) Ask the departmental chair of the obstetrical physicians what the best nursing action should have been.
• C) Examine other charts to find cases of the same complication, and determine how it was handled in those situations.
• D) Look in the policy and procedure book, and examine the practice guidelines published by a professional nursing organization.

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