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I am taught in nursing school that only doctors can enter the administration times into a drug chart however I constantly finding myself see other nurses write in the administration times (based on the frequency) and am wondering if you do others you know also do this?

Hi there, silly question but I am a nursing student and we are obviously always told never to recap needles, however, in our practice labs I was withdrawing medication from a rubber vial, once the needle is pulled out of this vial while still attached to the syringe, how are we supposed to discard this needle and attach a new sterile one without recapping?? The teacher stated to just twist off the needle that still attached to the syringe with our other hand, but surely that's a needle stick risk as well as the potential to contaminate the tip of the syringe..