A nurse sees a new nurse on the floor handling chemotherapy medications without gloves or protective clothing. What should the nurse do first?
1. Talk about it with other employees at the nurses' station later that day.
2. Nothing. The new nurse is doing nothing wrong.
3. Remind the new nurse that it is not safe to handle these medications without protective clothing.
4. Report the new nurse to the supervisor for unsafe use of medications.
3
Feedback
1. The nurse needs to speak directly with the new nurse to teach her about the safe handling of chemotherapy agents.
2. The new nurse needs education on how to handle chemotherapy agents.
3. Reminding the new nurse will help facilitate learning on how to handle chemotherapy agents.
4. The issue should be directly discussed with the new nurse.
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