We are having a problem at the place I work, and I don't know how to decipher all of the states legal mumbo jumbo. Is it a WI State Law that ANY scheduled drugs cannot be written by a licensed nurse (LPN/RN) as a verbal order prescription, co-signed, and faxed to the pharmacy? Is this just a matter of interpretation of the law? I have never had any issues in the past for medications such as Vicodin, Tylenol #3, or Ambien, but now they're saying we have to phone them in. This seems to me to be a more unreliable way of confirming the Rx. With a faxed Rx, you can compare signatures, and you also have the date/time/fax number stamp (from where the fax was sent) confirming it is from the doctor's office. I just want to know if this has recently come into play by a matter of state statute, has ALWAYS been (and we've been ignoring it), or if this is in fact a empolyer policy to appease one problem pharmacy (no other pharmacy has complained about the practice).

I believe each state is different

I haven't had any luck finding any information on this...I've been searching for the past two days!