Specialties NP
Updated: Jul 23, 2023 Published Jun 9, 2013
Just wondering - are there rules for NP prescribing by specialty? Example: if a PMHNP wrote an antibiotic prescription for a family member with an ear infection?
mammac5
727 Posts
North Carolina has just recently made it (officially) against the rules to write scheduled meds for family, those living in the same household as the prescriber, or the collaborating physician. I reckon they realize many of us have/will write scripts for the occasional blood pressure medication when a brother-in-law is here over the holidays and forgot his script at home, or a coworker has dysuria and dips her own urine to find leukocytes and nitrites. They've drawn the line at feeling pressured by family/friends/collaborating doc to write scheduled meds for those individuals and I think that's a good thing.
IcySageNurse
133 Posts
This is for NPs only or does this include MDs? If it's for everyone, yes, seems like an okay rule. If it's for NPs/PAs only and MDs can still write for family then that is very disrespectful of NPs.
nomadcrna, DNP, CRNA, NP
730 Posts
Scheduled meds are narcotics etc. Not antibiotics or bp meds.
Big difference between writing for antibiotics and such and for instance, Vicodin.
You would have to be pretty stupid to write for scheduled meds for a family member.
Icy,
Schedule meds are the various controlled substances. BP meds, antibiotics etc on NOT scheduled medications.