An Admitted Emergency Department (ED) Client Is Waiting for an Intensive

An admitted emergency department (ED) client is waiting for an intensive care unit (ICU) bed to be available for transfer to the inpatient unit.  The ED is very crowded today.  The ICU resident is currently too busy to request that an ICU client be transferred to telemetry so the bed can be available; the resident will be able to do so in about 6 hours.  What action should the ED charge nurse take first?

A) Call the telemetry unit manager
B) Notify the nursing supervisor
C) Send the client to ICU to "hold" the client in the hallway
D) Wait until the resident has time to request the transfer

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