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

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   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...

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

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   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...

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

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

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

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

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   Home setting. I added more information. Thanks for

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

   balmybalmblam replied to balmybalmblam's topic in Patient Safety Issues

   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...

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

   balmybalmblam posted a topic in Patient Safety Issues

   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...

7. Fired at retail job prior nursing school

   balmybalmblam posted a topic in Job Search, Interview, Resume

   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...