When we have a refill request, I have my RN or CNA review the chart to make sure the patient is keeping follow up appts and that the medication is prescribed by us. Then they print it out for me to sign. If anything is questionable I ask about or review the chart myself but that only happens once or twice a week. So far, this has worked great.
But that raises a beef I have about the prescription writer - my nurse should be able to act as my agent on prescriptions - that means that under my guidance she should be able to print out prescriptions that have my name at the bottom. The nurses should be able to act as an agent for any physician in the clinic which means they should be able to select different providers at the Rx Writer.
I had to create additional physician level users, each with my name, for each of my nurses, using separate User IDs, so that prescriptions would print out with my name at the bottom instead of theirs.
To repeat, the nurses should be able to act as an agent for any physician in the clinic which means they should be able to select different providers at the Rx Writer.
