Re: Patient died from 8GMs of Dilantin Originally Posted by Emmanuel Goldstein 
More so, IMO. There's nothing to indicate the nurse was malicious in committing this error. These others stood by and watched it happen and yet didn't intervene. Calling her a "know-it-all" implies there was some satisfaction in watching her make a mistake and that they knew the mistake was a big one. So their actions were malicious, and I think that they should not only lose their licenses but be criminally prosecuted as well.
First, we have only the report of only one nurse who allegedly said she was a know-it-all. We know neither party, didn't hear the reporter say this. Not saying she didn't say it, just want to take a slow, measured approach here.
Next, those who "stood by and watched and gloated", shall we say, likely also did not realize that someone was committing a deadly error. Surely they would have spoken up had they realized.
Maybe I'm just in de Nile or maybe I can't take harsh reality or maybe I just don't know the blackness of peoples' hearts but it is very hard for me to accept that someone could knowingly let someone else make a mistake of this magnitude. I am just physically sick to think that other nurses would actually let this happen if they had the chance to prevent it.
Totally!!!! Well said Emmanuel! absolutely makes your blood boil reading about their actions/omissions doesn't it! Wonder if these accesories can face themselves in the mirror in the morning, or sleep at night? how unfortunate that these are supposedly fellow nurses. 
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