The nurse is having difficulty reading a medication order. Which is the best action for the nurse to take to prevent a medication error?
a. Clarify the order with the healthcare pro-vider who wrote it.
b. Talk with the pharmacist who knows what is usually ordered.
c. Ask a nurse who knows the healthcare provider to read it.
d. Have a nurse interpret the written medica-tion order.
A
To prevent patient injury and decrease nursing liability, the nurse clarifies illegible prescriptions and handwriting with the healthcare provider who wrote it. Asking the pharmacist about what is usually ordered does not reflect what may be in the current order. Changes may have been re-quested. Asking another nurse to try to read the order doesn't eliminate the chance of error.
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