While orienting on nights, a traveller shouted to me as I was entering the med room, "Get me 2 mg Ativan quick!" I was startled, but asked, "Who's the patient?" She told me, and I went in and got it for her. I had expected to see a pt climbing the walls, but strangely, when I found her in the pt room the lights were down and it was very quiet. I handed her the vial and she said, "Thanks, hon." That was it. Later I found out she did the same thing with 2 other nurses, demanding PRN Ativan and behaving as if she wasn't able to leave the pt room (there was a sitter in there, but I am assuming on break at the time). Questions popped into my head, like, Why all these PRNs were needed when she was relieving the sitter and couldn't get them herself, and Maybe as a newbie I was taken advantage of??? I didn't see anything else out of the ordinary to lead me to assume diversion was taking place, but the sitter seemed very stressed and overwhelmed. Was I right to "step and fetch" Ativan for this traveller? Should I have administerd the dose myself?
