A nurse is caring for an elderly patient. The patient's daughter has been reading on the Internet about a hospitalized patient who was given the wrong medication and subsequently died
The daughter asks the
nurse how the hospital can prevent errors like that in the future. Which of the following is the best response by the nurse?
A) "The hospital could install a bar-code system to identify patients and medications."
B) "Errors like that are bound to happen, given the shortage of nurses."
C) "Most physicians' handwriting is so bad that it's hard to figure out what medications they really want. It's no wonder more people aren't killed by medication errors."
D) "Errors like that are bound to happen when nurses have too many patients assigned to their care."
A
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1. Keeping the bed at the highest position at all times. 2. Using furniture to block areas that are off-limits to the patient. 3. Placing the patient's bed at the lowest level when the patient is sleeping. 4. Placing the overbed table across the wheelchair when the patient is seated.
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