Basic Nursing 1st Edition by Judith Wilkinson, Leslie Treas

Exercise 14

You note that your client with asthma is having increasing difficulty breathing. You call the physician, who gives you a telephone order for an asthma medication, and then hangs up. When you enter the order electronically as a verbal order, you find out the medication is a nonformulary medication that your pharmacy does not carry.
• Is this an acceptable reason to take a verbal order?
• The physician becomes irritated when you call back and says, "I prescribed what I wanted", How would you handle this situation?
• You entered the order electronically after the physician hung up. How could this situation have been avoided?