Improving the Safety of Telephone or Verbal Orders.
PHYSICIAN'S ORDERS. The most common way of delegating authority is to write an order in a hospital chart or otherwise formally record orders for PEs. The physician may write the order in person, or a nurse may enter it in the chart at the physician's direction. Formal orders are valuable for clarifying the delegation of authority in that.
All verbal orders are to be written on the physician’s order sheet by the licensed person receiving the order and on the medication administration record. All verbal orders by consulting physicians must be countersigned by the attending physician.
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Prescriptions and medication orders can be handwritten, typed, preprinted, verbal, or entered into a computer program and submitted to the pharmacy by the patient or caregiver, or via fax, computer, or other electronic means.
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Use Verbal Nods. In addition to attentive, polite and respectful language, reassuring noises can also be used to show courtesy. These are often known as verbal nods. When the customer speaks for a long period of time, it could be disconcerting to hear silence on the other end of the phone.
Who can write prescriptions (that may legally be filled with prescription-only items) National or local (i.e. state or provincial) legislation governs who can write a prescription. In the United States, physicians (either M.D., D.O. or D.P.M.) have the broadest prescriptive authority.