Your client leaves the health care facility against the doctor's advice. Which of the following would be the best way to document this event on the client's chart?
1. notify the client's physician and chart what the physician requests be documented
2. left AMA
3. as a discharge note
4. the same information as on a discharge note, but include left AMA
ANS: 4
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