Writing med orders for in-patient?

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I'm close to being offered an in-patient NP palliative care position in CA, and was wondering what the deal is with writing in-patient orders, including controlled substances, without my furnishing license. I've tried to read the info on the BRN, but the whole linguistic word-play around protocols, furnishing etc etc gets really confusing.

Can anyone help?

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Specializes in ACNP-BC, Adult Critical Care, Cardiology.

My understanding is that you can not write even in-patient medication orders without your Furnishing License and you can not write scheduled drugs without a Furnishing License that states that you can prescribe scheduled drugs. There are two components to the Furnishing License in California: (1) you get the priviledge to furnish meds after six months of physician supervision and (2) you get to furnish scheduled medications once you have a DEA and have attended a BRN-approved CE class on furnishing scheduled medications. You can have one component met and get a Furnishing License and not complete the second component which will prevent you from writing for scheduled drugs.

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You cannot write any in-pt orders or out-pt prescriptions without the NPI and DEA. Just go online and get the NPI number and DEA number, it doesn't take that long. Also, you have up to 1 year to complete the scheduled med classes, I won't worry too much about it until everything else is settled.

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