'Stick to your guns. It's only a painkiller...'

Two simple words Tony, law suit. If you have given a lovely autograph on an 'authority to administer' then you can be sued, rather than the nurse or the their 'provider arm' company. Simples.
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And this ladies and gentlemen is why we wade through treacle. Paul Conroy

Tony- Punchline for you--'Authority to administer' try Licenced to Pill. Simon Ruffle

"The usual fiver to anyone who can explain to me why a fully trained nurse appears to be unable to remove a tablet from a box bearing a perfectly straightforward dosage label and hand it over"
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She hasn't been on that course.
Its her break
She needs someone to check the tablet with her.
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Do I get the fiver? steven martin

It'll be because she's a fully trained professional in her own right... and may even be one of those Highly Specialist Nurses Pete Budden

Pay a bit to get a lot who don't do much or pay a lot to get a few who do a lot. Accountants are thick remember.............. BurntOut GP

"It's clearly stated in the guidelines that I cannot administer your medications without a signed authority..."
"But it was my doctor who said..."
Frrt ......gzzzt .... "malfunction"..."abort, abort"..."exterminate all humans...." Bryan Moore

We've all experienced a patient who has a shopping bag full of fully labelled medications with several duplicate brands and outdated meds - keep it safe

amjed munir

As a simple commissioner I do not understand. We have home care assistants who prompt many frail older people at home to take their pills. Similar staff in care homes dole out meds all the time to people who cannot manage their own meds. ive done it myself - the meds are prescribed by the GP, the giving of them is recorded, what is the problem? Most of these people cannot manage their own meds otherwise they would be doing it. Why cannot a nurse do the same thing? In nursing homes the qualified staff do the same role again with no special dispensations, even for controlled drugs. Yvonne Bonifas