I wonder if other A&E Centres have a different approach to Nurse
administerd analgesia.
In our department, I am told, nurses cannot prescribe simple analgesia (ie
paracetamol) to the patients while waiting to be seen, unless at the
doctor's request.
As pain is a major triage criteria to me it seems illogical for fully
qualified A&E nurses (even at ENP status) to be forbidden the
administration of a couple of paracetamols when they are freely available
from the across the street filling station.
The other illogical thing to me is that if a patients phones A&E asking for
advice, it is often suggested analgesia/antiinflam. in form of products
available freely to the public. So, it is OK to suggest analgesia over the
phone but not to actual give it in the patient's hand?
Are we isolated in doing this?
Thanks for your comments.
Dr. Tudor Codreanu
SG A&E
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