As you are coming on duty to take over the day shift, the night nurse tells you that she has already counted the controlled drugs for the day shift. What is your role in this situation?
1. Do nothing; this is standard procedure.
2. Accept the keys and recount the drugs.
3. Recount the drugs with another nurse.
4. Count the drugs at the end of your shift.
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At the end of each shift, the contents of the locked cabinet are counted together by one nurse from each shift.
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