Every hour IV medication

[sistrmoon]

If you work on a med surg floor, is there a policy about every hour IV pain medication? Ours are supposed to be converted to a PCA pump if they are really taking it that often but it's not happening in practice, which is challenging with a full patient load.

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

I talked to my boss and she said next time this happens to go up both the nursing and md chain of command to change it.