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A Patient Residing in a Long-Term Care Facility Has Been

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A patient residing in a long-term care facility has been experiencing restlessness and has often been found by nursing staff wandering in and out of other patients' rooms during the night.The nurse views the patient's PRN antipsychotic medication order as which of the following?


A) An appropriate intervention to help assure the resident's safety.
B) An option to be used only when all other nondrug interventions prove ineffective.
C) Inappropriate unless the physician is notified and approves its use.
D) Not an option because it should not be used to manage behaviors of this type.

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