The nurse discovers a medication error on another nurse's documentation, so the nurse completes an incident report. Which statement should the nurse include in the report?
a. "Nurse mistakenly gave the wrong dose of medication for pain.".
b. "Nurse gave incorrect dose of pain medi-cation, but patient is all right.".
c. "Morphine 10 mg IM given rather than morphine 5 mg IM as ordered.".
d. "Physician will be notified of error when he makes rounds tomorrow.".
C
Stating that the patient received morphine 10 mg instead of 5 mg is a factual statement to include on an incident report because it is objective and provides no interpretation or conjecture from the nurse. The remaining choices are incorrect statements that do not accurately reflect what occurred. The physician needs to be notified as soon as the patient has been assessed, not the following day.
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