A nurse, charting the administration of medications to an assigned client at 9 pm, notes that atenolol (Tenormin) was prescribed to be administered at 9 am instead of 9 pm. The nurse checks the client's vital signs, completes an incident report, and calls the physician to report the error. The physician tells the nurse that an incident report is not needed but instructs her to monitor the client during the night for hypotension. What action should the nurse take?
A. Notifying the nursing supervisor
B. Tearing up and discarding the incident report
C. Telling the physician that the error warrants the completion of an incident report
D. Telling the nursing supervisor that the physician did not want an incident report completed and filed
Ans: C. Telling the physician that the error warrants the completion of an incident report
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