Which situation will require the nurse to obtain a telephone order?

A) As the nurse and primary care provider leave a patient's room,the primary care provider gives the nurse an order.
B) At 0100,a patient's blood pressure drops from 120/80 to 90/50 and the incision dressing is saturated with blood.
C) At 0800,the nurse and primary care provider make rounds and the primary care provider tells the nurse a diet order.
D) A nurse reads an order correctly as written by the primary care provider in the patient's medical record.

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Marcus StJohn · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : B, Explanation :  A registered nurse makes a telephone report when significant events or changes in a patient's condition have occurred.Telephone orders and verbal orders usually occur at night or during emergencies.Because the time is 0100 (1 a.m. )and the primary care provider is not present,the nurse will need to call the primary care provider for a telephone order.A verbal order involves the health care provider giving orders to a nurse while they are standing near each other.Just reading an order that is correctly written in the chart does not require a telephone order.

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