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I have searched the internet high and low and cannot find an answer. I thought I would check in to see if anyone can answer this. I am a RN in a medical setting. I gave an Invega injection to a psych patient and then waited for the pharmacy to send me the dose that is given a week later. The doctor decided he wanted me to give the injection a couple of days early and i explained to him that the injection had not been sent over from the pharmacy. He told me just to give a sample and I asked what I would do with the patients delivered prescription. He said to just tear the label off and use it on another patient in the future. This does not sound legal to me and I have not been able to find an answer to this without actually calling the board of pharmacy. I refused to follow his advice.

So there is no law out there that states a male nurse cannot work obstetrics?

I have discovered recently that my hospital will not allow one of our male nurses to float to the OB floor because he is a male. We take turns floating and they continually skip his float date. The other day, a surgical floor aide(male) was going to have to float to the OB floor. Instead, they pulled our female aide to OB and made the surgical male aide come to our floor and work. I also know this OB department denied a preceptorship to a male nursing student. I thought gender discrimination was illegal these days. It is blatantly obvious this is going on at our facility. Any comments? Suggestions?

Last night a 49 year old male patient was admitted to our med surg unit with R/O PE which was later ruled out. He also had a history of anxiety. Admitting doctor ordered 5 to 10 mg Ativan po Q 4hrs prn. Evening shift nurses questioned it and called the doc on call who quickly changed it to 1 mg Q 4 hrs prn. This morning, the primary doctor comes in and throws a huge fit on the floor. Why didn't my patient get 10 mg Ativan last night???. I explained to her that we have a right to question orders like that and her partner on call changed it. Our pharmacy states max daily dosage should be 10 mg divided over 2 to 3 doses. Also, this patient had taken Ativan only one other time in his life. So...could I get some feedback? I had to write an incedent at the doctors request. Thanks fellow nurses :)