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A New Nurse Is Caring for Five Patients on a Busy

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A new nurse is caring for five patients on a busy surgical floor.While hanging blood for a patient,the nurse receives notice that another assigned patient is being taken for surgery.The nurse has not obtained informed consent from the patient.What action should the new nurse take?


A) Immediately leave the room he/she is in and obtain informed consent from the patient.
B) Allow the patient to go to surgery without obtaining informed consent.
C) Delegate obtaining informed consent to another nurse while staying with the patient who is receiving blood.
D) Ask the transporter to obtain informed consent from the patient.

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