The advanced nurse practitioner believes that he should spend as much time with each patient as the patient desires. Does this practice raise ethical challenges?
1. No, patients should expect to wait in any health care provider's office.
2. Yes, this practice reflects poorly on the nurse's physician colleagues.
3. No, this is the way all nursing should be practiced.
4. Yes, if this practice makes other patients wait past their own appointment times.
4
Rationale: Patients no longer expect to wait in the health care provider's office.
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