A client with coronary artery disease has a sudden episode of cyanosis and a change in respirations. The nurse starts oxygen administration immediately. Legally, should the nurse have administered the oxygen?1 The oxygen had not been prescribed and therefore should not have been administered.2 The symptoms were too vague for the nurse to determine a need for administering oxygen.3 The nurse's observations were sufficient, and therefore oxygen should have been administered.4 The health care provider should have been called for a prescription before the nurse administered the oxygen.

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