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Article R4312-42 of the French Public Health Code

Nurses apply and respect medical prescriptions which, except in emergencies, are written, quantitative and qualitative, dated and signed.

They ask the prescriber for further information whenever they consider it useful, particularly if they feel they have not been adequately informed.

If the nurse has any doubts about the prescription, he checks it with the prescriber or, if this is not possible, with another member of the profession concerned. If it is impossible to verify the prescription and there is a clear and imminent risk to the patient’s health, the nurse will adopt, in accordance with his or her own competencies, the attitude that best safeguards the patient’s health and does not put the patient at any unjustified risk.

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Article R4312-42
L’infirmier applique et respecte la prescription médicale qui, sauf urgence, est écrite, quantitative et qualitative, datée et signée.


Il demande au prescripteur un complément d’information chaque fois qu’il le juge utile, notamment s’il estime être insuffisamment éclairé.


Si l’infirmier a un doute sur la prescription, il la vérifie auprès de son auteur ou, en cas d’impossibilité, auprès d’un autre membre de la profession concernée. En cas d’impossibilité de vérification et de risques manifestes et imminents pour la santé du patient, il adopte, en vertu de ses compétences propres, l’attitude qui permet de préserver au mieux la santé du patient, et ne fait prendre à ce dernier aucun risque injustifié.

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