Question

A friend calls and asks you to prescribe a medication for her. You have this autonomy, but you don’t have your friend’s medical history. You write the prescription anyway.

Explain the ethical and legal implications of the scenario you selected on all stakeholders involved such as the prescriber, pharmacist, patient, and the patient's family.

Describe strategies to address disclosure and nondisclosure as identified in the scenario selected. Be sure to reference laws specific to your state.

Explain two strategies that you, as an advanced practice nurse would use to guide your decision making in this scenario, including whether you would disclose your error. Be sure to justify your explanation.

Explain the process of writing prescriptions including strategies to minimize medication errors.

Answer 1

Nurse Practitioner :

Nurse Practitioner is the one who has been given rights to prescribe medications.

However in this given scenario there would be ethical and legal issues.

* Prescriber:

As the prescriber didn't ask about history of the patient she did not follow the standard of care and if there is any bad outcome the her action may consider as malpractice.

* Patient:

There is a wide range of possibility to get bad outcome from the prescribed medication if she has any history related to the medicine.

* Pharmacist :

After a negative outcome pharmacist might loose his Shops reputation and also he may considered as doing Malpractice