The nurse knows that for a hospitalized patient, the legal owner of the patient's medical record is the:
a. patient.
b. physician.
c. institution.
d. state.
C
Ownership of a medical record belongs to the institution in the case of a hospitalized patient, or the doctor in the case of private office visits.
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numerator of the conversion factor. Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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a. bacterium. c. fungus. b. virus. d. mite.
The nurse identifies a collaborative problem related to spirituality. When planning the client's care, the nurse would direct interventions toward which of the following?
A) Psychological or physiologic response of the body to stress B) Client response to being referred to a primary care provider C) The problem that results from clustering the data D) Impact of spirituality on the client's health