The medical team determines that a patient needs to be transferred to another facility to continue receiving the most appropriate and beneficial care. The transfer process has been slow and difficult,
and the nurse is struggling to care for the transferring patient along with her other assigned patients. What is the best action the nurse can take to improve her situation?
a. Continue to do the best that she can do for all of her patients.
b. Inform the medical team that the transfer will have to wait for the next shift.
c. Involve management so that the nurse can focus on patient care.
d. Ask her co-workers to manage her patient assignment.
ANS: C
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