Correct Answer + Rationale? Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management Situation: On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness...

Correct Answer + Rationale?
Subject: Nursing Leadership and Management


Situation:  On admission at the emergency room, the client is perspiring profusely, breathing hardly and complaining of dizziness and palpitations. The nurse on duty left the room to call the doctor.


The bulk of responsibility is on the head nurse when he supervises ancillary workers based on this rule: *


a. Res Ipsa Loquitor
b. Respondent superior
c. Unity of command
d. Legitimate authority