Which of the following would LEAST likely indicate that an emergency is due to drugs or alcohol?
A) Unresponsive patient with unequal pupils
B) Open sores and scars to the upper arms
C) Empty liquor bottles at the scene
D) Hospital discharge order with a pain prescription
A
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You forgot to apply oxygen to a patient with severe pain from a possible broken ankle. You know you should have administered the oxygen, but you know that your patient was not harmed by you not remembering it. Which of the following would be appropriate?
A) Write that your patient refused when you tried to give her oxygen. B) Add an addendum stating that you got busy and forgot to deliver oxygen. C) Record that you administered two liters of oxygen by nasal cannula. D) State that in your opinion the patient did not require oxygen since her breathing was fine.
Stopping care without ensuring that another appropriately credentialed health care provider will take over care is called:
A) neglect. B) refusal. C) battery. D) abandonment.