Ok so this may be a very dumb question.
A friend of my mothers husband is dying of cancer. He is coming home from the hospital soon on hospice. He is very ill, and from the sounds of it does not have much time left. His wife is a very close friend of my mothers. My mother is organizing, friends to come help the wife take care of him, and of course offered my help.
Not that i don't mind helping! but I have taken care of many family members who has since passed on from cancer. However in the past, i have been family and not a licensed nurse. So I didn't know if i'm allowed to give him his meds?
I know my mother's friend, but not all that well.
As a now RN helping a friend, am I allowed to give him his perscribed medications?
She is not paying me, so I'm not the hired RN. But it's not like they are family either. I just wasn't sure since now I'm an RN, where the legal standpoint is on this type of thing.