When patients do not understand the information provided with their medication, whose responsibility is it to help them sort through and comprehend the meaning?
A) Care giver
B) Nurse
C) Patient
D) Physician
B
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Many pharmacies provide written information with each drug that is dispensed, but trying to organize these sheets of information into a usable and understandable form is difficult for many patients. The nurse is often the one who needs to sort through the provided information to organize, simplify, and make sense of it for the patient.
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