Prehospital emergency personnel have placed a patient in a head brace and on a backboard after a motor vehicle accident. The nurse would advocate for the patient to be removed from this immobilization at what time?
1. As soon as the patient arrives in the emergency department
2. As soon as assessment is completed and a treatment plan is established
3. As soon as a cross-table lateral cervical spine X-ray is taken
4. As soon as the patient is admitted to the neurological intensive care unit
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Rationale 1: The patient should remain immobilized until some assessment is performed.
Rationale 2: The patient should remain immobilized until initial assessment is completed and evaluated and a treatment plan has been established.
Rationale 3: The patient should remain immobilized until evaluation is complete.
Rationale 4: The time for discontinuing immobilization is related to the patient's condition, not to where the patient is located in the hospital.
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