The adult patient with type 1 diabetes mellitus and Parkinson’s disease lives alone. Which patient statement would prompt the nurse to advocate for a delay in discharge from the hospital?

Following a motor vehicle accident, an organ donor is declared brain dead and the heart is procured at 0700 on Monday. By what time must the heart be transplanted into the recipient? Enter your number using military time (0000).

The nurse has observed the resident physician move between patients without performing hand hygiene on multiple occasions. Each time, the nurse asks the resident physician to perform hand hygiene before moving on to the next patient; the resident physician scoffs at the nurse and continues examining patients. Which action by the nurse is most appropriate?