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Re: Phillipa..info on who can dispense/prescribe » Phillipa

Posted by fayeroe on January 14, 2009, at 8:42:38

In reply to Re: Seriously What's Happened To Meds Board???? » JadeKelly, posted by Phillipa on January 13, 2009, at 3:41:27

> Educated as they were old ones no longer used and I never dispensed to a patient an MAOI as the docs in the various hospitals I worked at didn't use them. Phillipa

I forgot to post this about when we were all in a tizzy about the "dispensing" of meds.
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*Physicians, dentists, and nurse practitioners with prescriptive
authority are the only individuals, other than pharmacists, that are permitted
to dispense prescription drugs (providing patients with prescription drugs for
take home - self administration) in a medical setting.* Dentists may only
dispense prescription drugs for their dental patients. Nurse practitioners may
only dispense those prescription drugs that they are authorized to prescribe.

Nursing personnel may administer a dose (orally, by injection, etc.) of a
prescription drug to a patient after receiving a written or verbal order from
the prescriber for that patient.
"Prescription drugs that have been dispensed by an individual
who is legally authorized to dispense may be delivered to (handed to/taken to)
the patient by a responsible, authorized
staff member" who has
been instructed to refer questions related to patients' medications to
appropriate individuals.

A dispenser of a med has to have prescriptive authority. Nurses do not
write prescriptions, at least not legally.

p.s. This is not to say that many doctors do not rubber stamp their signatures on script pads and allow their staff to write out prescriptions. That is illegal.

This information could protect a patient who doesn't understand how important it is to know where the prescription originated.

 

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