Multiple Choice
A senior nursing student is doing her community clinical rotation.When visiting a young family to whom she has been assigned,the mother of a 3-year-old child states that her daughter does not feel well.The nursing student feels her skin,which is warm.She asks the mother if she has taken her temperature to which the mother replies,"Yes,I used the same thermometer that was my great-grandmother's; it has been used by my family for years.Her oral temperature was 102.3° F." The most important action for the nursing student to perform is to do which of the following?
A) Teach that temporal artery thermometers are more accurate than others.
B) Tell the mother that hospitals still use mercury thermometers.
C) Ask to see the thermometer.
D) Recommend a chemical thermometer for greater accuracy.
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