Can nurses administer medications or tests without a patient specific order from an authorized prescriber?
No. Nurses are required to have patient-specific orders for the medications and tests that they administer. There is one exception provided by §6909 of Education Law and §64.7 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education which authorizes a registered nurse to administer certain immunization, anaphylaxis treatment agents, purified protein derivative (PPD) tests and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) tests based on non-patient specific orders and protocols.
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