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Question: When initiating sepsis protocols, do you all start all IV antibiotics at once? This has never been a practice of mine and I don’t consider this best practice. I’ve always been taught for first time administration to give antibiotics alone so that if there is a reaction you can identify the source. I had a nurse start all antibiotics at once and her rationale was that she didn’t want the patient to become “more septic” while waiting to get the additional treatment. That made no sense to me as sepsis protocols say to have antibiotics started in a timely manner, but you still have to consider patient safety.