The patient's health record contains the following provider's order: furosemide 40 mg intravenously STAT. If the nurse later needed to know when the medication had been given and the patient's response to the medication, where would he look?
1) In the progress notes
2) On the graphic record
3) In the narrative notes
4) On the MAR
ANS: 3
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