Can a doctor ask a nurse to write the order when she is standing right there??

[Parul]

Hello All,

I am a relatively new nurse and work for a psych. facility. Many times, the doctors just ask us nurses to write the orders for them when they are right there..These are the orders when they are not very clear about what to do or they want us to do something that is against the policies. i.e. -- we had a patient who required many very expensive medications. Our policy says that we will only administer the medications that were ordered for the patient from our pharmacy and will not use any medication that the consumers bring with them from home. But there are exceptions when the doctors would give us an order to use consumer's medication. So, the other day when the case worker brought in medication for one consumer -- doctor just told me to receive the medication, identify them and confirm what they were and write an order on her behalf to use those medication for the consumer. My manager inter wined and said -- sorry doc, but nurses can not dispense the medication. So, the doctor gave us a nasty look and opened the bottles to see if the medications were what they said on the bottle. She also said -- well, how am I suppose to know what medications are these??? Lucky for her -- all the bottles were sealed, so she just gave all of them to us and said -- ok, you can write down all the medications and write the order for me now..CAN SHE DO THAT??? Can someone please tell me where can I look up the information about when are the nurses responsible to write the orders for doctors?? I will appreciate some guidance as if how to handle situations like this. ..thank you all.

[Zookeeper3]

I simply say.... "if you write it ... it will be done", I smile and walk off. Joint has made this perfectly clear, and unless I'm in an emergency (I work ICU)... I revert to my first statement and become unavailable for further discussion. PERIOD.

My facility has zero tolerance for docs not writing their own orders, and I'm backed, covered and assume they know how to print in this advanced stage in their degree, they are capable, not my issue.