After you have performed a venipuncture on a patient who is lying on a hospital bed, you must perform safety checks before leaving the patient. One check is to:

A. make sure the bedrails are down.
B. make sure the bedrails are up.
C. make sure that you raise the bedrails if you have lowered them.
D. make sure both bedrails are in the same position.


Answer: C

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