A new nurse is caring for five patients on a busy surgical floor. While hanging blood for a patient, the nurse receives notice that another assigned patient is being taken for surgery. The nurse has not obtained informed consent from the patient
What action should the new nurse take? a. Immediately leave the room he/she is in and obtain informed consent from the pa-tient.
b. Allow the patient to go to surgery without obtaining informed consent.
c. Delegate obtaining informed consent to another nurse while staying with the pa-tient who is receiving blood.
d. Ask the transporter to obtain informed consent from the patient.
C
Although the nurse must stay with the patient while hanging blood, it is important that informed consent is obtained from the other patient before going to surgery. The best action for the nurse to take would be to compromise and delegate obtaining informed consent to another nurse. The other actions would be inappropriate and possibly dangerous to the patients involved.
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