You are a charge nurse and discover a medication error was made on the previous shift. What is your responsibility?
A) Tell the charge nurse on the shift the incident occurred and let her pursue the problem.
B) Document the incident per hospital policy.
C) Write a memo to the nurse who made the error and request she complete an incident report.
D) Write a note in the patient's chart that an incident report was completed.
B
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