The nurse is helping to ambulate a patient who is recovering from hip surgery and is a fall risk. An unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP) tells the nurse that another one of her assigned patients is in severe pain and requires pain medication. Which is the most appropriate action?

Help the current patient safely back to their room and go administer the pain medication. In this situation, the best course of action is to safely get the current patient back to their room and secured and then go to administer the pain medication. It is not appropriate to delay the pain medication in order to finish with the current patient. Since the nurse is responsible for the patients to which they are assigned, it is not appropriate to simply leave the current patient without making sure they are safely secured nor to delegate another nurse to administer the pain medication.

The nurse is helping to ambulate a patient who is recovering from...

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