Stamping on a prescription

[pathwizard]

Hi everyone,

I am a medical resident in NYC and have a question regarding prescription writing. I work at a hospital that is exempt from electronic prescriptions so I have to write all my prescriptions out.

Is it allowed to stamp the drug information instead of handwriting it onto the prescription pad? I mainly prescribe narcotics and antibiotics. Would like a more efficient and easy to read way of writing these scripts for my pts.

Ex of a stamp that I would like to use:

Motrin 600 mg
Disp 20 tabs
Take 1 tab q4h prn pain

Thank you very much

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[Merrem_Covers_Sinusitis]

I can't speak to NY's laws regarding scripts but I can definitely tell you that if you're going to be writing scripts for narcotics or stamping that you better make sure you have your DEA number on there.

Your instructions look pretty solid for a healthcare professional though if you are concerned about your pt reading the script you might have to sacrifice the shorthand with those directions.