A client is voluntarily admitted to a psychiatric unit. Later, the client develops severe pain in the right lower quadrant and is diagnosed as having acute appendicitis. How should the nurse prepare the client for the appendectomy?
1
Have two nurses witness the client signing the operative consent form.
2
Ensure that the surgeon and the psychiatrist sign for the surgery because it is an emergency procedure.
3
Ask the client to sign the operative consent form after the client has been informed of the procedure and required care.
4
Inform the client’s next of kin that it will be necessary for one of them to sign the consent form because the client is on a psychiatric unit.