§ 4019 Hospital Drug Order Authorization

Key Takeaways

•A doctor's note in your hospital chart is like a prescription for medicine.
•The note must have all the right info and be signed by the doctor.
•If the doctor isn't there when you get the medicine, another doctor in charge can sign the note later.

Example

You're in the hospital with a bad infection. The doctor writes in your chart that you need antibiotics.

The nurse can give you the antibiotics from the hospital's supply because the doctor's note in your chart works like a prescription. The doctor must sign the note, or if they're not there, another doctor taking care of you can sign it later.

An “order,” entered on the chart or medical record of a patient registered in a hospital or a patient under emergency treatment in the hospital, by or on the order of a practitioner authorized by law to prescribe drugs, shall be authorization for the administration of the drug from hospital floor or ward stocks furnished by the hospital pharmacy or under licensure granted under Section 4056, and shall be considered to be a prescription if the medication is to be furnished directly to the patient by the hospital pharmacy or another pharmacy furnishing prescribed drugs for hospital patients; provided that the chart or medical record of the patient contains all of the information required by Sections 4040 and 4070 and the order is signed by the practitioner authorized by law to prescribe drugs, if he or she is present when the drugs are given. If he or she is not present when the drugs are given, the order shall be signed either by the attending physician responsible for the patient’s care at the time the drugs are given to the patient or by the practitioner who ordered the drugs for the patient on the practitioner’s next visit to the hospital. (Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 858, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)

Key Takeaways

•A doctor's note in your hospital chart is like a prescription for medicine.
•The note must have all the right info and be signed by the doctor.
•If the doctor isn't there when you get the medicine, another doctor in charge can sign the note later.

Example

You're in the hospital with a bad infection. The doctor writes in your chart that you need antibiotics.

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