Registered Nurses’ Experiences with the Medication Administration Process

Table 2

The nurses’ roles in prescribing and documenting medication.

Stage	Role	Specification
Prescribing events	An advocate of patients	Informing patient of medications; Taking responsibility in; (i) prescribing situations based on their understanding of the patient’s condition,; (ii) suggesting changes if needed in patient medications (dosing/choice of medication)
	An active attendee	Monitoring physician orders; (i) ensuring the validity of prescriptions,; (ii) considering patient medications as a whole (following up interactions, extra/unnecessary medications),; (iii) reminding physician of medications that need to be discontinued,; (iv) informing of patients prevailing condition that needs to be considered with upcoming prescriptions,; (v) guiding/suggesting physician to prescribe specific medicines/increase of doses
	A passive attendee	Executing orders
Documenting prescriptions	A programmer	Programming administration times to the software
	A person responsible/in charge	Responsible for the entire documenting process