Re: Nurse in Spain Makes Fatal Mistake in NICU

This happened in one NICU I worked at. Good nurse, but sometimes we just get into a routine. The baby was okay.

Re: Nurse in Spain Makes Fatal Mistake in NICU

Originally Posted by dawngloves

Holy cow! I guess they don't use the feeding system we use at our facility. (Not interchangeble and colored florescent orange)

Awesome system btw, we use the same thing.

My heart goes out to that family.

Re: Nurse in Spain Makes Fatal Mistake in NICU

That's awful. But, it doesn't matter how experienced a nurse is, mistakes get made. Never be so comfortable in the "experienced nurse" role to think that you won't make a mistake. One of our best nurses, who was having one of those days that you never forget, hooked up a feed to the balloon port of the g-tube..this is before we had the feed systems and rigged up things. She felt absolutely awful.

As for the feeding tubes, I'm sure many countries aren't required to use the same systems we are, that is why we have sentinel events here and they use those to make change.