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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[cbrons]

It shouldn't matter if you stamp it. The exception is all controlled substances would probably have to be hand written on fraud-protected Rx paper (whatever the term is for those things). Of course this really depends on the state you are in.
In my state, all scheduled substances have to be on security/anti-fraud Rx paper.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Stamps or pre-printed pads are fine for non-controlled drugs.

 

[pathwizard]

Ok thank you. I'll just get stamps for the antibiotics and motrin.