- Provide the information assuming they are family.
- Decline to provide information until identity and relationship are verified and patient consent is confirmed.
- Ask the patient if they want to share information.
- Refer the relative to the physician.
A nurse is asked by a patient’s family to provide information about the patient’s condition to a new relative who has just arrived. The nurse has not verified this relative’s identity or relationship to the patient. What is the nurse’s ethical obligation?
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