You have received report, and assumed care, from your patient's primary caregiver, and are completing your initial patient assessment, environmental assessment, and review of physician's orders. You note a discrepancy between the ordered breath rate (12bpm) and the actual ventilator setting (14bpm) . The primary caregiver reported the setting to be 14BPM , which is consistent with your patient assessment. What should you do?
a. Call the patient's primary caregiver to confirm vent rate.
b. Call the MD to confirm/danfy the ordec.
c. Call the nurse who previously worked with the pabent to ask about the change!
d. Call the clinical supervisoc.
a. Call the patient's primary caregiver to confirm vent rate.
b. Call the MD to confirm/danfy the ordec.
c. Call the nurse who previously worked with the pabent to ask about the change!
d. Call the clinical supervisoc.