Question

You are on-call for the clinic, and a patient you don't know calls and requests a refill of their prescription for opiate pain medications. They are out of pain medication because their backpack was stolen on the public transportation system last week.

Discuss answer as nurse practitioner provider and the ethical principle(s) ANA Code of Ethics, the AMA Code of Ethics, based decision on.

Answer 1

Dealing with opioidd addiction is one of the most significant issue the US health system faces todayand nurses are playing a key role in our nations effort to deal with the crisis. For health care professional many aspects of opioids addiction and other substance use disorders presennt challenges not least the danger that they themselves may have succumbed, American nurses association ANA has created a series of helpful resources outline best practice a more general overview of the role of ineffective pain managementin fueling the opoid epedemic and proposals for how the situation cann be improved on a natiional level.in this situation the nurse does not have the right to prescribe the drug, The nurse should advice the patient to visit the Doctor and generate the prescription again for the medication.

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