Nursing Management: Critical Care Environment

While family members are visiting, a patient has a cardiac arrest and is being resuscitated. Which of the following actions by the nurse is best?

A. Ask family members if they wish to remain in the room during the resuscitation.

B. Explain to family members that watching the resuscitation will be very stressful.

C. Assign a staff member to wait with family members just outside the patient room.

D. Escort family members quickly out of the patient room and then remain with them.

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