A nurse has been assigned to a medical-surgical unit on a stormy day. Three of the staff can’t make it in to work, and no other staff is available. How will the nurse proceed?

A. Prioritize care so that all patients get safe care.

B. Provide nursing care only to those patients to whom the nurse is regularly assigned.

C. Ask selected ambulatory patients if they can help with care of the sickest patients.
D. Refuse the nursing assignment as the increased number of patients makes it unsafe.