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∙ 12y agoNO I WISH IM AN LPN AND U HAVE 2 BE AT LEAST A NURSE PRAC OR PHYS ASST UNLESS THE LPN STEALS THE SCRIPT PAD WHICH IS AN EXTRA BAD IDEA
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Can a nurse practitioner write prescriptions in California?
Yes, nurse practitioners can write prescriptions in California.
Who can write prescriptions?
Doctors, physician's assistants and nurse practitioners.
Can a nurse practitioner write a prescription for medicare billing?
Nurse practitioners can write prescriptions for patients with Medicare.
Can a nurse practitioner write prescriptions with out being supervised bt a physician?
Only if they are an advanced practice registered nurse and only if their state of practice permits it, i.e. a nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or certified registered nurse anesthetists.
Can a nurse practitioner write a narcotic prescription?
Yes, nurse practitioners with appropriate training and licensing can write prescriptions for narcotics in most states. Contact your state board of nursing for information specific to your location.
These healthcare professionals are usually limited to the types of prescriptions they can write by a set of standing orders?
Answer is A. nurse practitioners
These healthcare professionals are usually limited to the types of prescriptions they can write by a set of standing orders.?
Answer is A. nurse practitioners
Can a nurse practitioner write a prescription for depression medication?
Yes, nurse practitioners can write prescriptions for antidepressants. Whether they will or not depends on their specialty, training, and practice site, just as with physicians.
Can a nurse practitioner write prescriptions for xanax?
Writing a prescription is one distinctive difference versus an RN, so it follows that , yes, NP can prescribe any controlled substance like Vicodin.
Can a midwife write prescriptions?
No they cannot. Only a licensed physician can write prescriptions.This is WRONG. A Certified Nurse Midwife and Certified Midwife are both considered midlevel clinicians and take an identical pharmacology class to an MD. We can and do write prescriptions for many types of medicines- even controlled substances (you must have a DEA# to do so- and yes many of us have them)The truth is: Midwives, Nurse Practitioners and Physician's assistants can ALL write prescriptions.
Can nurses prescribe drugs?
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.
What are usually limited to the types of prescriptions they can write by a set of standing order?
Nurse Practitioners. (Penn Foster?... page 62 of your Prescribers of Drugs study guide)
