Doctor's lying about telephone order

Totally despise telephone orders.

Chances of miscommunication, especially when both parties have an accent . This person said/that person said... bleh.

It would be nice if more facilities make it a point to have a witness sign off on telephone orders and/or record conversations with telephone orders.

Edited Jul 17, 2017 by DTWriter

Mom made a big deal over this incident and was threatening to sue. I doubt the EPS was from my shot. because it developed four days later.

It wasn't an adult dose. We routinely give 10 to adolescents. Pt. just developed EPS, things happen. But the Dr. decided to put this on me . Thank you for support. I am starting to forget about it.

I agree. Writing a note about receiving an order wouldn't help at all. The only thing that could help is a witness. I am waiting for RN who was near by that day. She is currently on vacation. However, as you already suggested I would probably just move on. Thank you everybody for your opinions and support. I am slowly letting it go. On the other hand, I still can't accept that nothing is done about it: " Oh... this doctor.... we know... don't worry.... he does that sometimes....." He does that sometimes?????????? *****??????? How about some disciplinary actions for "doing that sometimes"???????

BTW, very interesting fact: he actually DID sing the order!!!! How does this make ANY sense???????? I think he signed the order then he was notified that patient is not ok and decided that the order is wrong .....

EPS take a while to manifest. I've never heard of an EPS on day 2 or 3 of an antipsychotic.

Hummmmm ..... strange it happens though ,. Thank God u were not written up.

I don't know about anyone else but I tend to check the chart and the drug book after receiving an order. I've caught physicians Rx'ing drugs to people with known allergies, wrong dosage, and incorrect or non-existent parameters. If something exceeds the recommended dosage, I'll call pharmacy to confirm. If necessary, I'll hold the drug until I get clarification from the Doc via text. I'll type out all of the information so it's a yes or no response and then save it.

I rarely do TO unless it's really an emergency. We haven't implemented a real EMR or E-scripts according to the CMS mandate anway. It's like working in a 1980's time capsule. Everything is paper and fax otherwise.