As a licensed nurse, you are trained to follow orders and document your actions. However, in some circumstances, you may be asked to do something outside your nursing scope of practice. For example, have you ever had a supervisor say, “Just write an order for that.  We always do that to help out the physicians”?  In that situation, your supervisor has put you between a rock and a hard place.  They are telling you one thing but your gut is saying, “Hey!  Wait a minute!  I don’t have an … [Read more...]