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Out in the real world, it is according to

Posted By: lt on 2008-12-10
In Reply to: Confused MT Student - Dana

Subject: Out in the real world, it is according to

how the client prefers. If you are being marked down for not putting them, then I would go ahead and add them if you cannot get an instructor to let you know one way or the other. Sometimes the docs do dictate vital signs separate from the PE, and unless you have been told to move them under the PE heading, then I would leave them as dictated.


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