Driving after receiving sedating medications

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Courtney Mechler
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Driving after receiving sedating medications

Does anyone have a policy or standard of practice regarding driving after receiving sedating medications? For example, patients are advised not drive for so many hours, or are not allowed to drive themselves from the hospital? We are seeing this more in the ED setting and this stirs up nurse/pharmacy debate about how long the patient needs to be kept before discharge if they do not have any other means of transport.

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Courtney

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