We had an incident recently where a resident got the wrong meds. New nurse asked an aide to identify a resident. The aide pointed in the general direction of the resident. She was sitting at a table with a few other people. The nurse looked at the pictures in the book, went to the wrong resident, and asked if she was so-and-so. This resident is sweet and cooperative and will pretty much smile and nod at anything. So she got the wrong meds.
We were wondering how this could have happened, as the two women don't really look anything alike. Then we looked in the med book - their pictures looked very similar.
No bad outcome, thankfully.
Jan 8 by VANurse2010I think there's this false equivalency here that because some bands *may* get switched, that the entire system is worthless. Utter baloney, in my opinion.