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Occupational Therapy Assistant

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The charge nurse for the rehabilitation unit informs you that you cannot see your patient at the scheduled time because the patient’s physician is making rounds. This will throw off your entire schedule for the afternoon. What do you do?
  1. Inform the nurse that therapy is important, and the physician can see the patient while in therapy.
  2. Inform the nurse that therapy is important, and the physician will have to come back later.
  3. Do not see your patient. Instead, let the patient see the physician.
  4. Attempt to swap therapy times for this patient and another patient, so that you can still see your patient - just at a later time.
Explanation
Answer: D. You attempt to swap therapy times between the two patients. You cannot interfere with a physician’s rounds, and your patient must be available to see the physician. But you can attempt to change your therapy schedule, so that you can continue to see patients throughout the afternoon.
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