Accidentally brought home a medication!

[finallyaFLRN]

Hello

I am a new nurse (like 3 weeks) and i just found out I brought a med (just one tab of Adderall) home! My patient needed 6 tables of Adderall total and we only had 1 in the med machine so i pulled it out and sent a message to pharmacy for more. I got crazy busy after that and my shift was over. My preceptor said she also saw that there was no adderall in the machine so she sent a msg to pharmacy too. (We were kinda sharing patients) Anyway, i got home and found that one adderall in my pocket! I dont know what to do. I will look stupid if i call the unit saying i brought home a medication but i will feel bad if i dont do anything about it. It's not a controlled substance or anything though,, should i just mention it to the manager tomorrow?

[OlivetheRN, ADN, BSN, RN]

Good habit to get into; empty your pockets before you leave work :)

I totally normally do to avoid this. That shift, the crap hit the fan with an EMS pt right at shift change, by the time I left, I was running late to meet my friends for the movie. It wasn't till I started to empty pockets in the movie theater because stuff was digging into my fluff that I found it. Good times. My preceptor still has the text I sent her freaking out hah

[PTKChic]

Thanks for posting this. I could see this happening to me.

[Jen_Jen88]

During my externship I brought home Advil and I almost died lol I brought it back the next day told my preceptor ans she just took it back and put in back were I got it from the day before. I say just bring it back it will teach you to check your pockets before you leave it sure did teach me lol.