A nursing student's grandmother relates a time in the 1920s when medications were selected based upon the recommendation of a nurse who lived in the neighborhood. How is this possible?
1. Prescriptive authority was not removed from nurse practice acts until the 1950s.
2. The grandmother must be mistaken because medications have always been selected based upon physician prescription.
3. Prior to 1938, most medications were over-the-counter and nurses were instrumental in their choice.
4. This student's grandmother must have lived on a military base or facility where nurses were granted this privilege.
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Rationale: The legislation limiting prescriptive authority to physicians was introduced before 1950.
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