A nurse is working on a medical-surgical unit and receives a phone call from a provider who would like to give orders for a new patient.What should the nurse do to make the telephone order safer for the patient?
A)Refuse to accept the telephone order and request that the physician come to the unit to write the order.
B)Accept the order and perform a "read back."
C)Write down the telephone order as it is being given.
D)Accept the telephone order,but write it down later.
E)Ask another nurse to accept the telephone order.

Question

A nurse is working on a medical-surgical unit and receives a phone call from a provider who would like to give orders for a new patient.What should the nurse do to make the telephone order safer for the patient? 
A)Refuse to accept the telephone order and request that the physician come to the unit to write the order.
B)Accept the order and perform a "read back."
C)Write down the telephone order as it is being given.
D)Accept the telephone order,but write it down later.
E)Ask another nurse to accept the telephone order.

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The nurse should accept the order,write it down,and perform a read back.According to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement,50% of all medication errors have been directly attributed to the failure to communicate information at the point of transition.

A Nurse Is Working on a Medical-Surgical Unit and Receives