A nurse makes a medication error and fills out an incident report. What will the nurse do with the incident report once it is filled out?

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The nurse should maintain the incident report according to agency policy, which may include submitting it to a supervisor or risk management team. It should not be placed in the client's medical record or taken home and kept locked up. It may be included with documentation of the error, but this is not the main purpose of the incident report.

A Nurse Makes a Medication Error and Fills Out an Incident