The nurse is caring for a 78-year-old female patient who is scheduled for surgery to remove her brain tumor. The patient is very apprehensive and keeps asking when she will get her preoperative medicine. The medicine is ordered to be given on call to OR. When would be the best time to give this medication?
A) As soon as possible, in order to alleviate the patients anxiety
B) As the patient is transferred to the OR bed
C) When the porter arrives on the floor to take the patient to surgery
D) After being notified by the OR and before other preoperative preparations
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