Cerydwyn

What type of nursing are you doing now? I am currently working in a private practice for a retinal surgeon. If you are in a surgical setting at a hospital, you could ask about any opportunities to scrub in on ophthalmic cases and get some experience. That would also allow you to possibly find out about openings coming up with the Ophth. docs. If you are working in another setting, you might call some local Ophthalmologists offices and ask if they are accepting applications, or if you could submit one for future RN opportunities. Also, here is the website for ASORN, the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses. http://webeye.ophth.uiowa.edu/asorn/index.htm

Back when I was a nursing student I had a stab wound patient with a chest tube. The pt. had repeatedly clamped the tube and detached it himself from the PleuroVac to go smoke. This time he forgot to unclamp it. The doc was furious and was removing it. No one told me not to stand at the foot of the bed. When the doc yanked the tube out, all the pleural "slush" collected in the tube slung across the front of my shirt and arms. There was a nice blank spot on the wall where I had stood, and I spent the rest of the day in scrubs!

Back when I was a nursing student I had a stab wound patient with a chest tube. The pt. had repeatedly clamped the tube and detached it himself from the PleuroVac to go smoke. This time he forgot to unclamp it. The doc was furious and was removing it. No one told me not to stand at the foot of the bed. When the doc yanked the tube out, all the pleural "slush" collected in the tube slung across the front of my shirt and arms. There was a nice blank spot on the wall where I had stood, and I spent the rest of the day in scrubs!

Thank you for your replies, everyone. I'll look into this further for future reference. I will at least report the script error and it will be up to the doc to follow-up.

She is taking a verbal order from the doctor physically present in the office and then writing the script. In the hospital, as others have mentioned, only RNs could take the orders, phone or otherwise, but I'm thinking that may be the hospital's policy and not state law.

I am wondering if anyone knows the answer to, or where I can find the answer to, a question regarding who can and who cannot legally receive doctor's orders in Indiana. I am an RN working in a physician's office. In this office, a tech who has no official medical training, has been receiving doctor's orders for medications and writing prescriptions. Today I noted a prescription she wrote for twice the acceptable dosage. She does not consult with an RN or the physician before passing these prescriptions on to the patient. I'm wondering if she can legally write these prescriptions and the physician is just responsible for her, or if it is illegal. There is a plethora of information out there, and I haven't yet found the specifics I am looking for. Thank you.