After a nurse gives part of a controlled substance dose, a coworker asks the nurse to cosign the waste, but the nurse did not see the remaining drug being discarded. What should the nurse do?

1. 1Cosign because the coworker is trustworthy
2. 2Decline to cosign the waste
3. 3Cosign and add a note about the amount
4. 4Ask the coworker to discard it later and then cosign

Source: Nursing Health Promotion (Open RN, Chippewa Valley Technical College, 2025), Maladaptive Coping Behaviors: Preventing Drug Diversion. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.