So the media is choosing to focus on this case. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12863901/Nurse-healthcare-worker-illegally-drugged-patients-Blackpool-stroke-ward-amusements-jailed-total-ten-years-two-months.html
Not denying the appalling evil behavior of the staff involved but the fact the media are choosing to splash coverage makes me think the midazolam deaths are going to be laid at the feet of nursing staff to keep doctors hands clean? This story sets a narrative of nurses drugging patients for a quiet life. The midazolam scandal is beginning to gain attention so it’s going to have to spun in some way to protect the PTBs and what better way than for doctors to blame the clinical judgment of subordinate nurses for patient deaths???
Do nurses get to make decisions on medication, or do they have to wait for a doctor to order it? This is probably the root of liability.
Only nurse practitioners or doctors can order medications. It is the nurse’s responsibility to know the correct dose, administer the correct dose via the correct route to the correct patient.
The docs have to write a script but I’ve personally seen docs write a patient up for midazolam in advance and it being left for the nurse to use their clinical judgement to administer as they saw fit