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238 Section IV Cases and Discussion Questions When Nursing Meets Medicine Maureen felt she had no other choice but to let the hospital administrator know when a physician had repeatedly prescribed the wrong dose of medication. How many times could she double-check with Dr. George Ludwig just to be sure that she had understood his orders? Orders, they still call them, she thought to herself. That is certainly what they want them to be. The days of obeying orders were over for Maureen. She had been through nursing school, and after five years working in the hospital, she went back to get her doctor of nursing practice degree to become a nurse specialist so she could work in an intensive care unit. Now she was doing the weekend 12 -hour nursing shift to make ends meet and finish her doctoral degree. Nurses were in short supply, so she could now for the first time speak her mind without fear of osing her job. Nursing, she realized, was by its very 1ame designed to nurture and take care of patients, ut that did not apply to physicians. Their arrogance vas so deep, she did not think they saw it. Hospital policy required nurses to follow the rders after first checking with the head nurse and hen double-checking with the physician who wrote he order. Complaints could be filed with the hospiI wality assurance committee, but the process took