A nurse responds to the call bell and finds another nurse evacuating the client from the room because a garbage can has caught fire. Which of the following actions should the nurse take first?
A) Evacuate the unit.
B) Pull the fire alarm lever.
C) Confine the fire.
D) Extinguish the fire.
B
Feedback:
The nurse should pull the fire alarm lever. As per the RACE principle of fire management, the flow of activities should be rescue, alarm, confine, and extinguish. The client had already been evacuated by another nurse, so the next action should be to pull the fire alarm lever, followed by confinement of the fire and extinguishing.
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