Help!!!

Legal advice because of the medication I gave (as in pt suing me) or legal advice because I lost my job or legal advice because I won't be able to get another job???

I got the lecture about professional nurses don't make those types of mistakes. They provide medication books, have it on the computer etc. He expects us to know every medication that we are giving. He basically said if I had given the wrong pt this medication then he was ok with it. He said a nurse that could do this wasn't needed in his unit...IF I could find another position in the facility it would be ok. Put me on vacation for a week to find another job but warned me that if someone were to call about me he was obligated to tell them what happened...

Thank you so much.. Just a regular lawyer or someone who specializes in nursing law? If so where do I find someone, the board? If this is too much legal advice for the rules, just ignore me and again I thank you ssoooo much!!

Yeah, I'm a new grad, I've worked on this floor. Finished my orientation 2 months ago. NEVER made a med mistake on orientation, this is my FIRST med mistake. I know I should always look up medications but I've given this medication before, looked it up I don't know how many times with my preceptor (while on orientation) and I got it somehow mixed up that it made BP go up rather than down. I know I'm lucky that nothing happened to my patient, but I feel that I should have gotten something other than firing...I'd made stupid mistakes while on orientation and since, but NEVER a med mistake. I'd never been written up for anything, I'd had the talk about not making mistakes (when ever I made a mistake while on orientation they would say this is what you did, this is what you should have done, etc but no write ups) and then my first med mistake, I'm fired....It's been a week and still no interviews for another job....I figure my ex boss is out there trashing me... Ok, I'm bitter, sorry!!

Also, yes, this is a mistake that I will never forget, hydralazine makes BP go down, labetelol makes BP go down, I know they don't do anything other than that. I just hope that I can be able to give them or any other medication at some point...