The RN observes the Nursing Assistant (NA) just beginning to regulate the IV of an oncology client receiving morphine sulfate for pain.An LVN on the RN's team is responsible for this client and assigned the client to the NA.The RN team leader's intervention should be to
A) Inform the LVN so that he or she intervenes to instruct the NA that this action is not within the parameters of responsibility for the NA and therefore is not legal.
B) Immediately inform the charge nurse and fill out an unusual occurrence (incident) report.
C) Call a staff meeting and confront the LVN and NA and clarify the areas of responsibility for each staff member.
D) Ask the LVN and NA to meet with the RN team leader to discuss the responsibility parameters each of them has in relation to client care.
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