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Nurses who have attained advanced practice education (usually in the form of a Masters or Doctorate) and have appropriate board certifications are able to prescribe medication in most states as nurse practitioners. In some states nurse practitioners can prescribe independently and autonomously, in others they can only prescribe when working with a medical doctor.
RNs and LVNs who do not hold advanced practice degrees and certifications do not prescribe, but they often dispense medication based upon a physician's orders.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoNo, a nurse cannot write prescriptions at all (at least in the US). The only one who can write prescriptions is a licensed physician.
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