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My SP needs a Rx for traveling and asked me to send to the pharmacy. Nothing risky at all but  is that legal? Obviously not okay to give nacrs etc. provider to provider, but I worry about a person in supervisor position crap. Any insight?

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I had this discussion a few times over the years. My personal sense is your SP delegates your prescriptive privilege to you. You writing him/her a prescription COULD be construed as self prescribing or undue influence on you. This would be particularly true if nothing is documented in the chart. I approach these things from the perspective of "how would I explain this to the board?"

Now the odds of anyone actually taking issue with it is low but all it takes is a pharmacist who wants to be a horses patoot....

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1) they must be a patient (this is the one the state boards get you on!)  They need to fill out paperwork, sign a consent to treat and officially become a patient

2) there needs to be a note (see above - this is the most common things the state boards seem to get people on)  no prescribing with out at least a SOAP note

3) we have a couple doc's in my practice so I noted that a different doc is the SP when I do thiis.

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1) they must be a patient (this is the one the state boards get you on!)  They need to fill out paperwork, sign a consent to treat and officially become a patient

 

here is the sticky point. Under many supervision rules the relationship, officially, is between the patient and the SP even if the SP never sees the patient. So the SP would be a patient of himself/herself.

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