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A Patient Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit Was Placed

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A patient admitted to the intensive care unit was placed on ventilator support.The nurse caring for this patient identified on the plan of care that one of the outcomes was that the patient would not develop ventilator-acquired pneumonia (VAP) .To achieve this outcome,the nurse delegates the following to the unlicensed assistive personnel: "Please perform oral care on the patient every 2 hours.In this situation oral care would include using the special swabs we have for our patients on VAP precautions so we can prevent pneumonia." Which of the five rights of delegation did the nurse use?


A) Right route
B) Right direction/communication
C) Right dose
D) Right supervision

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