Your patient is discharged from the hospital. All the medications the patient was taking that are classified as controlled substances must be given to:
1. the patient at discharge.
2. the patient's family at discharge.
3. the hospital pharmacy after the patient's discharge.
4. another hospital patient after the patient's discharge.
3
All controlled substances ordered for a patient but not used while the patient is in the hospital go back to the pharmacy when the patient is discharged.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false