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Article: Is your narcotics practice `significantly different?'.
- Article from:
- Nursing Law's Regan Report
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
- Author:
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IS YOUR NARCOTICS' PRACTICE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT? If it is, you may be earmarked for scrutiny by your employer as well as your peers. Although the level of use of narcotics dispensed will often significantly differ from nurse to nurse, there are certain parameters. If your record for dispensing narcotics often exceeds that of your peers by a significant amounts, you may be subject to scrutiny. However, nurses should never deliberately withhold needed medication from patients for whom narcotics are prescribed. Nurses should never attempt to withhold narcotics from those who are in need of prescribed medication for pain relief. Nor should nurses attempt to substitute ...