balmybalmblam

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1. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Safety

   Thanks so much for everyone who has replied. I'm so stressed and a paranoid over issues like these! That's what I thought so too. I thought I didn't have legal rights to take a patients meds even with good intentions. But I got thrown off when my rn ...

2. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Safety

   Thanks for the reply. Is there a website you can recommend for me to refer to with these issues? Or a book? That's what I originally thought and discussed this with my manager who is a family therapist. My higher ups are psychology doctors, therapist...

3. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Safety

   I'm a new grad as well. It's an in home setting

4. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Safety

   Home setting. I added more information. Thanks for replying

5. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Safety

   This is an in home setting. I'm not working at a hospital. My agency is contracted by county to provide social work for mental ill patients living in their community. I'm an rn who provides medication support to mentally lll patients. And a new grad

6. Can you take a patient's medication without their consent?

   balmybalmblam posted a topic in Safety

   Can an Rn legally take a patient's tylenol#3 without their consent? Lets say you have a mentally ill patient who was formerly conserved but not anymore. His judgement may not be sound but he is technically competent (but questionable). If the nurse i...

7. Fired at retail job prior nursing school

   balmybalmblam posted a topic in Job Hunt

   I'm a recent ADN graduate trying to get my foot in the door. It's been so hard with so much competition and now something in my past is haunting me. Right before I got into nursing school, I was fired at a part-time retail job. I was fired for absent...