A newly employed nurse had read the nurse practice act very carefully. After the first orientation day, the nurse read the agency procedure book from cover to cover and discovered
that some policies seemed to be contradictory to the state law. What should the nurse do?
A. Ask the agency supervisor what the nurse should do.
B. Ask the physician what the physician wanted done in areas where there were discrepancies.
C. Follow agency policy and procedure as the agency was paying the nurse to do.
D. Report the discrepancies to the agency and volunteer to help revise the policy.
ANS: D
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