The Patient Was in Bed with All Side Rails Up

The patient was in bed with all side rails up.During the night,the patient tried to get up to go to the bathroom and fell while trying to climb over the side rails.After meeting the patient's needs and assessing that the patient is not harmed,the nurse needs to:

A) Complete an incident report and put it in the medical record
B) Chart what happened and state that an incident report has been filled out
C) Do nothing since the patient was not harmed
D) Document what happened in the patient record without mentioning the incident report

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