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I am a junior in nursing school and will not cover medications in depth until my fall semester. I work as a Tech at an acute care nursing facility and the other day my patient was asking for his pain medication. The nurse (an LPN) said she had to go find Alisha (an RN)....the RN came in to give him his medication which was Dilaudid IV. Why did the LPN need an RN to give this medication for her. Are there restrictions on meds that Lpn's can give. Im very curious.

Yeah, it was supposed to be IV meds. This thread is almost a year old.

Well, it showed up on current threads when I 'got here' today- sorry :) I didn't look at old pages- weird.

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Well, it showed up on current threads when I 'got here' today- sorry :) I didn't look at old pages- weird.

Could be worse. Someone could go to the last page of this forum and "bump" one of the threads from 1998 back to the front page.:lol2:

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Could be worse. Someone could go to the last page of this forum and "bump" one of the threads from 1998 back to the front page.:lol2:

That would be awkward !! I didn't look at the date of this (obviously :D), though I've been more careful about that since running across one from who knows when... it got picked up like it was all current- and someone pointed out it was old news :D

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