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A Nurse Administers the Wrong Medication to a Patient

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A nurse administers the wrong medication to a patient.The charge nurse reminds the nurse to complete a critical occurrence report describing what had occurred.What is the goal of the critical occurrence report?


A) Critical occurrence reports are completed if the event has harmed the patient.
B) Ethical issues such as medication errors are reported to the ethical society of the institution.
C) Prevention of future errors can be improved by the report and investigation of the critical occurrence reports.
D) Nurses can be found liable of medication errors and lose their job.

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