Reprimanded for NOT giving IV Push Medicine

[Spritenurse1210]

I worked for this doctor's office that also had an iv infusion center. I was told to give IV Push Ativan and I refused because am not legally allowed to do so. I could lose my license. I was told to learn my place and listen to my superiors. I was also told that I would be fired because I could not listen, I quit first.

Anyone else see something wrong with this picture?

[lmd]

a similar thing happend to me when I was in my last rotation as a student, I was on a med/surg ward and the nurses all decided to have a lunch together, they told me I was in charge (I thought they where joking but they disappeared) and hid in one of the patient rooms. The director came around and was asking where they went and I didn't know! That was the worst prac I ever went on, I went home crying 70% of the time... they where just belittling bullies, they even put a sticker on my back one day that a patient pointed out to me about me being new and not knowing anything, I couldn't believe grown women could act like this........... Made me seriously question going into nursing.

[MedicalLPN, LPN]

I live in VA as well, a while back I was doing some searching to find out the SOP for LPN's after a few phone calls I found out that there is no definitive document for SOP that it is up to each facility to decide what we can and cannot do. At my previous facility I was allowed to only push certain approved meds.

However, I now work at a different facility, I'm not allowed to do the admission assessment but am allowed to do all assessments afterwards, I can't spike blood or blood products, can't d/c PICC's or access PAC's. However, there are no IVP meds that are off limits for me, the policies at this hospital allow LPN's to push everything from morphine to lopressor, which is needless to say very nice.