A team leader is preparing to type the evening shift report. Which comment should be included in the report?
a. Patient A complained of a headache until his wife arrived to visit. She was 20 mi-nutes late because of unavoidable traffic.
b. Patient B ate everything on her dinner tray—roast beef, mashed potatoes, and green beans—and the dessert, too, which is her usual pattern.
c. Patient C was so restless that the dressing on her sacrum came off and had to be re-placed. No change occurred in the as-sessment of the decubitus.
d. Patient D had her usual visitors. She is sleeping after her regular evening medica-tions, which were given as ordered at 2000.
C
The shift report should contain only clear, concise, and thorough information without extra use-less comments.
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