A truck has just smashed into the dayroom of a long-term health care facility with enormous damage and injuring many of the residents. The noninjured residents are stunned and frightened and totally disorganized
Recognizing that everyone is in the impact stage, the nurse should: a. firmly instruct two CNAs to start wheel-ing residents to the dining room in their wheelchairs.
b. begin wheeling residents back to their rooms herself.
c. shout for everyone to hurry to the dining room.
d. start treating the injured in the dayroom.
A
In the impact stage, firm direction is needed to get people to a central place for safety and infor-mation.
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