The nurse is receiving a phone order from a health care provider. How will the nurse make sure that the provider's order is received without error?
a. Advise the health care provider that the order must be written on the chart within the next 24 hours.
b. Ask the nurse in charge to come to the phone to take the order.
c. Write the order without using any unclear or unapproved abbreviations.
d. Repeat the order, write the order verbatim, and read it back to the provider.
D
Repeat the order, write the order verbatim, and read it back to the provider are the steps recom-mended to confirm that the order was understood correctly, as well as communicated correctly. The question is in regard to the receiving of the order, not specifically how it is written. The nurse will write the phone order on the chart, and later the health care provider will co-sign the order. The charge nurse does not have to take the phone order; any licensed nurse can take the phone order.
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