You have received report, and assumed care, from your patient's primary caregiver, and are completing your initial patient assessment, environmental assessment, and review of physician's orders. You note a discrepancy between the ordered breath rate (12bpm) and the actual ventilator setting (14bpm) . The primary caregiver reported the setting to be 14BPM , which is consistent with your patient assessment. What should you do?
a. Call the patient's primary caregiver to confirm vent rate.
b. Call the MD to confirm/danfy the ordec.
c. Call the nurse who previously worked with the pabent to ask about the change!
d. Call the clinical supervisoc.



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