A nurse provides care to a patient who has died. Which priority action would the nurse implement when preforming postmortem care?

Document the time when the patient stopped breathing and the heartbeat ceased.

Notify the health-care provider (HCP) so that the patient will be legally pronounced dead.

Bathe the patient's body and remove all tubes unless an autopsy is prescribed.

Insist that the family bathe the patient so they can begin the grieving process.