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When Educating a Student Nurse About Hospital Identification Bands, a Nurse

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When educating a student nurse about hospital identification bands, a nurse appropriately recognizes that additional teaching is warranted when the student nurse states:


A) "The hospital identification band displays the patient's name and birth date and the hospital identification number."
B) "I have taken care of this patient before, so I will not need to check the patient's identification band before administering medication."
C) "I should instruct the patient to state his or her name and verify that it matches the name on the hospital identification band."
D) "I should ask the patient to state his or her date of birth and verify that it matches the date of birth listed on the hospital identification band."

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