A nurse is working on a medical-surgical unit and receives phone call from a physician who would like to give orders for a new patient.What should the nurse do to make the telephone order safer for the patient? (Select all that apply.)
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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