Can nurse give medicines?!

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Yes nurses can prescribe certain over the counter medicines for they too have the knowledge of the action, potency, interaction, and counter-indication of meds. There are no problem to what your MiL's sister is doing for as long as she is not stealing the meds from her other patients...

i'm an RN

Okay, first, nurses do give prescribed medications to patients, that's part of their job - to monitor the dispensing of medication. But in order to give prescription medicines you must have a prescription provided by a licensed physician or physician's assistant or nurse practitioner. A nurse practitioner has the education and authority to diagnose and prescribe medication. Now, is her sister a practitioner? That's the question - if she is, then she can prescribe and can give the medicine. If she does not, well, that's not legal.

Here's the thing, in the past I've frequently seen nurses get medicines that are not specifically prescribed and dispensed them to relatives or friends. Most states have laws that make it a crime to dispense prescription drugs without a license. Often I have seen people take advantage of the availability of medications and their own limited expertise to give medicines to people. My own mother, as a nurse in a medical practice, did it herself, she would give out doctor's samples. The real problem arises in whether the medicine is beneficial or not - and a nurse generally doesn't have the expertise to make that determination, unless she received additional education and became a nurse practitioner. If your MIL is not improving in health, somebody needs to step in a get her to a doctor. If she has been seeing a doctor, he needs to be advised on the additional treatment. Either way, a doctor should be called in and he needs to be made aware of the antibiotics she has been taking. And further, long term antibiotic usage can be quite harmful to the system, and somebody should manage this to protect the MIL. And, I should just say, unless you wish to make a big hulabaloo, her sister's license to practice nursing is at risk - while she may be trying to help, she also may be violating the law. Someone needs to talk to her and find out what she is doing and whether she has the authority.

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HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First, she's dispensing medicine without a license.
2nd, she's stealing.

She could easily lose her license if found out.
(and you might win some $$ if you turn her in!!)