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Which statement would be the responsibility of the medical technician during a routine patient admission to a nursing unit? |
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Obtain patient's vital signs, height and weight |
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What considerations determine the steps in the routine admission process? |
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Patient's condition and the facility policy |
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While admitting a patient, you notice that the patient seems dizzy and unstable. What should you do? |
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Inform the nurse that the patient is at risk for falling |
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Who authorizes tranfer of a patient care for an interservice transfer? |
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During the transfer of a psychiatric patient requiring sedation, how are the patient's valuables safeguarded? |
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Designated custodian signs for the property, and fowards the items by registered mail. |
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Which statement allow a patient to depart from the medical facility for a short period of time, usually between 24 and 48 hours? |
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Verbal orders must be countersigned by the physician within |
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The most common forms that medical tehnician will be responsible for completing are the |
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Intake and Output flow sheet and the vital signs record |
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What is the proper methid of annotating shift change totals on the DD Form 792, Intake and Output Worksheet? |
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Circle the last accumulatd total |
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If an inpatient chart with doctor's orders for vital signs every 4 hours was blank for the day, you would assume the |
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vital signs were not completed |
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