I recently went to work at nursing home after 1 year and 9 months and I was glad to get back to work. Anyway, I had no idea the nursing home had G tags when I was hired. Well, short story too long 3 weeks into my job with 1 day orientation I made a med error. I confused a resident with her room mate. The resident was anxious and climbing out of bed, she was yelling, and seem nervous. This continued for sometime I wanted to help her feel better and I pulled the PRN narcotic MAR which here is kept seperate from the original MAR. I immediate saw she had a order for antianxiety and administered it to her (watch out) about a couple hours later she was still agitated no change. I went again to her MAR only to discover I made a mistake she had no medicine, and that I had pulled her room mates med card and gave her the med. Needless to say I assess her and called the doctor who's answering service was suppose to call him for me. No hear back in a reasonable amount of time. Then I called them again and they had a doctor on call for him call me. I explain to the doctor about the error and the doctor was not to concerned NKDA and the worse was they would sleep most of the morning. Being new I had to rely on others to help me find the correct form to file the med error. I thought I did everything I could do called the doctor, monitor the resident, documented and filed the paperwork.
Well, I got suspended and the DON treated me so indignant. She try to twist my words and make me say something else this went on all day with phone calls. I made a error and stupid mistake I failed to double check, and I have no other story so stop baggering me. Thinking to myself Okay, yes I know you have G tags or sitations, but they happen before I came so why are you abusing me so hard. I don't know what she will do I called the BON they said they rarely do anything to a nurse that makes a med error and has no history, and the resident was okay, they said nurses make them and the important thing was I called the doctor and reported it. Howeves, if she files a complaint i worry I will suffer. I really tried hard and failed, and I feel really awful.
So what is your thoughts? Do you think I could get into any trouble with my BON?
