Medical control has ordered you to administer one tube of oral glucose to a hypoglycemic patient. Immediately after receiving this order, you should:
A: ask medical control to repeat the order word for word.
B: repeat the order back to medical control word for word.
C: document the order on the prehospital care report.
D: administer the medication and reassess the patient.
Answer: B: repeat the order back to medical control word for word.
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