In our unit, we tend to give a lot of "country" doses (such as adding on a couple extra units of insulin if someone's sugars are high, or giving the extra mg of Ativan to the resident Meth od). We even joke about it with some of our md's. I guess I'm just a little curious about how "normal " this is. i feel like I work in an EXTREMELY liberal unit ( we order a lot of things, labs, ekgs, x-rays, O2, and we make few med changes like changing from iv to po, or giving benedryl or tylenol) and I was just wondering what the consensus is.
It's the only unit i've worked in as an RN and I was just curious.