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I've done this before, but my agency has a "first dost policy". The first dose needs to be done in the hospital, outpt dept, or Dr office. We do have pt's come out of the hospital and need PM doses. We try to get them before 10pm, but some Dr's insist on a specific time. It does not happen every day, but it does happen. We have a M-TH on-call nurse, so I am only on call aprox 1 Fri every other month, so it's not too bad.
k10za
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Within the last 8 months I've gone back into home care after 15 years in the hospital. I was on call on a Sunday night and was made to stay out visiting a patient until after 11pm. I didn't get home until 1145pm. Is this normal now? My management didn't even really push to get the doctor to agree to this visit being made 12 hours later in the morning? It involved a first dose IV antibiotic and the patient was to remain on other IV antibiotics anyway. Any insight?