The nurse is caring for a 70-year-old patient who was just admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation center. The patient had required total parenteral nutrition for several days, but recently resumed and is tolerating a regular diet. She has another 4 days left in a course of intravenous antibiotics to complete treatment of a positive central line culture. Which nursing action, required in the care of this patient, is considered a dependent role function?

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Administering the antibiotics prescribed by the health care provider is a dependent role function because it requires an order from a health care provider to be carried out. The other options are examples of independent or interdependent role functions, where the nurse can make decisions and take actions based on their own assessment and judgment.

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