Nurses are accountable for all decisions they make regarding patient care. Identify the best defense for initiating or changing any specific nursing intervention
a. Nursing administration has informed all units that they must update all current in-terventions.
b. A new intervention has been identified as less costly to patient and hospital.
c. The success of a new intervention is sup-ported by strong empirical evidence.
d. The charge nurse has read a particularly good idea for a new intervention in a re-putable nursing journal.
C
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